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Batandwa Ndondo (22), SRC University of Transkei, is shot by police on the outskirts of Cala, Transkei.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, announces that in retaliation for the British government’s refusal to give up the six m
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In the first post-independence election in Transkei, the ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) is returned to power.
In the first post-independence election in Transkei, the ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) is returned to power, winning virtually all seventy…
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Closure of more than seventy Black schools, mainly in the Cape Province, is ordered by the government following five months of
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Civilian rule is established in Ghana after the first military coup under Jerry Rawlings on 4 June, 1979.
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The Labour Party boycotts a crucial meeting of the Coloured Cabinet Council.
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Swaziland is admitted to the United Nations (UN).
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Rioters in the Congo burn and loot the Portuguese embassy in Kinshasa, demanding that relations with Portugal be broken off.
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The constitutional conference on Mauritius ends in London, deciding that the country should become an independent state within
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South African ordinance workshops have produced the first Belgian F.N. rifle, which is now ready to go into production.
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The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 22-8 in Port Elizabeth and shares the series with two each.
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Kagiso Patrick (Pat) Mautloa, SA artist and commercial designer, is born in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal.
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Baleka Mbete, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa since April 2004, is born.
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First conference in London of representatives from Britain’s African colonies.
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Magda Wessels, SA soprano and opera singer, is born.
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Anglo-Boer War: Commandant-General Louis Botha arrives at Babanango, on the Zululand border.
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Dr Johannes Frederik (Hans) Janse van Rensburg, commandant-general of the ‘Ossewabrandwag’ (OB) movement and administrator of t
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Dr Frans Geldenhuys, first editor of ‘Die Landbouweekblad’ and first head of the SA department of agricultural economics and ma
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Robert Godlonton, SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony,
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Jan van Riebeeck writes to Otto Jansz on Robben Island, enquiring about the number of sheep on the island and whether he needs
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Heritage Day. Public holiday in SA.
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Rebels in the Ivory Coast suspend their participation in the government of national unity.
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Armed men raid an Algerian village, shooting or stabbing to death at least 200 people and wounding 100 others.
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The US Senate approves legislation lifting US government economic sanctions against SA.
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South African Parliament passes a bill establishing the Transitional Executive Council, whose main purpose is to ensure free an
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The United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa, headed by Ms Angela King, is established to assist the parties in South Af
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Mandela supports SA’s bid to play in next year’s cricket World Cup.
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Winnie Mandela tells a 3000-strong crowd in Welkom that the ANC is committed to the armed struggle.
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President F W de Klerk arrives in Washington at the start of a three-day visit, stressing that his main aim is not the lifting
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