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A train is derailed and ploughs through a town near Alexandria, Egypt, killing forty-seven and injuring one hundred people.
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The Red Cross begins picking bodies up off the shattered streets of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, following four months of fi
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Libya announces that it will deport over one million Africans.
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A team of twelve Commonwealth observers, including high-ranking officers from military and police, a former Government Minister
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Political assassination: Nomsa Mapongwana (34), wife of chair of the UDF affiliated Western Cape Civic Organisation, Michael Ma
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Natal state of emergency lifted.
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Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the SRC, Modjadji Teacher Training College, dies in police custody after first being assaulted by
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South African authorities hang Black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise for allegedly killing a police officer.
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Member of UK Parliament Donald Anderson, one of the Labour Party’s spokesmen on foreign affairs, told a news conference after a
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Forces of the White Rhodesian regime attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique, killing over 200 people.
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A German anti-terrorist unit storms a hi-jacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu airport, Somalia. Three Palestinian terrorists
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The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin
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The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), second university with its seat in Johannesburg (after the University of the Witwatersrand
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Burundi prime minister, Léopold Biha, is wounded in an attack on the King’s palace by army mutineers.
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Pope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who
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The USA urges the general meeting of the UN to denounce South Africa’s apartheid policy.
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The first general election of the Republic of South Africa is won by the National Party with 105 out of 160 seats, showing a ga
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Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo discloses that France had agreed to grant the Cameroons internal autonomy and, if supported by a referen
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Dr Stanley Makhosi Bhebhe, SA theologian and sociologist, is born.
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Eleven protestors are killed in an event arising from a defiance campaign.
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The Special Service Battalion of the defence force of the Union of South Africa is dissolved, and gymnasiums for the army, air
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Prof. Willem Blommaert (48), SA historian, dies in Stellenbosch.
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Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, dies in London.
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General J.B.M. Hertzog rebukes National Party secessionists at a party congress in Bloemfontein.
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Dinuzulu ka-Cetewayo, Zulu chief, released from prison by Gen. Louis Botha (who also saw to it that he received a farm to live
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Turkish Sultan cedes Libya to Italy under a treaty signed at Ouchy, Switzerland.
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Anglo-Boer War: In a proclamation sent to Basutoland, President Steyn explains the defensive presence of commandos on the Bas
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Ernst Berthold Grosskopf, SA journalist and author, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Percy Albert Wagner, economic geologist and author of articles on diamonds, iron, tin, platinum and the Bushveld Igneous Comple
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