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Sydney Charles Buxton (80), British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Sussex, England.
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Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar
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Rexon (Scotch) Mathebula, SA artist who held several menial jobs and sold his first artworks (images on pieces of glass made wi
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Gottfried Andreas Watermeyer, SA poet, is born on a farm near Middelburg, CP.
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Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, SA cricket player in nine tests, is born in Kimberley.
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The Natal Teachers’ Union is established.
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The Union government appoints Commissioner of the Transvaal Police, Colonel (later Sir) Theodore Truter, as Chief Commissioner
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A unit of seventy-five Cape Police retires from Taung, urging the local Blacks to remain peaceful. The magist
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Kimberley starts.
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Johannes Jan Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder and politician who helped to frame t
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Britain’s Queen Victoria issues charter to Cecil John Rhodes and others authorising them to establish the British South Africa
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Railway line linking Sterkstroom to Stormberg Junction via Cyphergat Station opens.
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Frederick William Beyers, judge and SA minister of mining in 1924 is born in Paarl, Cape Colony.
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Friederich Wilhelm Jannasch, co-founder of the SA Music Academy, is born in Mamre, Cape Colony.
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Commander Simon van der Stel himself supervises the surveying of the first stands in Stellenbosch.
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World Rural Women’s Day.
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The Mail & Guardian goes to court to challenge an urgent interdict forcing it to remove from its website an SABC report int
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Gyude Bryant is sworn in as interim president of Liberia’s transitional government.
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Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, father of Tanzanian independence and a symbol of Africa’s hopes as it emerged from t
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Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and a critic of the Nigerian government, returns to his homeland for the first time in four years
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Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
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Lucas Radebe, SA soccer star, scores his first goal for Kaizer Chiefs (6) in the game versus Wits University (1).
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More than 150 000 people take part in seventeen marches countrywide organised by COSATU to protest against the Labour Relations
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Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the "ec
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Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, is awarded the Soviet Order of
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Vice President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is sworn-in as Anwar Sadat’s successor.
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Scientists have identified the mysterious disease (Green Monkey, a variant of hemorrhagic viral fever) that has caused more tha
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The Minister of Sport, Dr Piet Koornhof, announces a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declares the government is wor
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SA signs treaty with France on air pooling, concerning SAA and UTA.
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