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Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, is born in Natal. His death is annually commemorated by the ANC
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Smuts invades the Cape Colony through Kiba Drift, after fighting all night against armed Blacks.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: President Kruger issues a counter-proclamation from Nelspruit, declaring Lord Robert’s annexation proclamat
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The annexation of the Transvaal is announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands writes to her aunt, Queen Victoria, imploring her to use her influence
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The Rev. John Daniel Lindley (80), missionary and clergyman of the Voortrekkers, dies in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Dr Martin Heinrich (Hinrich) Karl Lichtenstein (77), physician, naturalist and explorer of the interior of South Africa, dies o
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Cape Governor Sir George Napier refuses to acknowledge the independence of Natalia.
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Carolus Johannes (Karel) Trichardt (Trechardt), son of Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt and explorer of Mozambique, Zanzibar
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Two rebels of the Graaff-Reinet Rebellion five years previously, Marthinus Prinsloo and Adriaan van Jaarsveld, are sentenced to
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The Rev. Meent Borcherds, moderator of the synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1826, is born in Jengum, Lower Saxony.
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Central African Republic’s President Francois Bozize dissolves the government of his impoverished country. An official says a n
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A Gauteng businessman, who is believed to be linked to an international nuclear weapons smuggling organisation, has been arrest
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Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu presents the new plan of the government, accepted by the cabinet on the 1st, to obliterate info
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The Sudanese government suspends peace talks with the country’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, or SPL
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Christiaan Neethling Barnard, medical pioneer who performed the first heart transplant, dies of an acute asthma attack in his h
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The SA rugby team beats Wales 40-11 in Johannesburg.
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South Africa signs agreement with the United Kingdom concerning mutual assistance in relation to drug trafficking.
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The SA rugby team beats the World-15 team 22-16 in Johannesburg.
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Riot police arrest more than 400 anti-apartheid protesters in downtown Cape Town, South Africa.
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Tinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player who played for Kaizer Chiefs and was winner of the Kick
EventZimbabwe announces it has severed diplomatic relations with South Africa, but will maintain a trade mission in Johannesburg.
Zimbabwe announced it had severed diplomatic relations with South Africa, but would maintain a trade mission in Johannesburg. The ending of diplomatic…
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha pays a two-day (2-3 September) visit to Israel where Southern African issues are discussed with Pr
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The Bophuthatswana electoral office publishes the results of the general election giving Chief Lucas Mangope’s Democratic Party
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Johannes Jacob Kruger (68), first president of the Publication Board, dies.
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The ban on public gatherings throughout the country is re-imposed until 31 October 1976.
EventLanga, Nyanga and Gugulethu students march through the Cape Town CBD
About 2 000 students from Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu marched without notice or public declaration through the Cape Town CBD unhindered. On 2 September the…
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The United Arab Republic reverts to its former name, Egypt.
EventBotha announces third naval base
P.W. Botha, the then Minister of Defence, announced the establishment of a third South African Naval Base to be located at Saldana Bay, about 128 kilometres…
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