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South Africa’s largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), held its annual congress from 12
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Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei judiciary from South Africa, commences.
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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Joe Gqabi assassinated in Salisbury.
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The ‘Committee of 81’, representing all Coloured schools and colleges in the Western Cape, decides to end class boycotts.
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The Secretary of Health announces that all senior doctors in the Public Service, irrespective of race, will in future receive e
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Soviet advisers are expelled from the Republic of Somali by orders of the president, Muhammad Siyad Barre.
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Shaun MacLean Pollock, Springbok cricket player and son of the Springbok Peter Pollock, is born.
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The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal
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Europeans and Americans are reportedly fleeing Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, as more Nigerian Federal troops
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Ivory Coast closes sea and airports to South Africa and Portugal.
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The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 15-11 on Newlands.
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Roelf Meyer, former politician and NP negotiator at CODESA, is born.
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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria. He was w
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Judge Ivan Curlewis (42) dies in the same year he was appointed judge of Transvaal.
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Dolf van Niekerk, Springbok water skier, is born in Somerset West.
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Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies
Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo, Natal.
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Ronald Mylchreest, S.A sculptor, is born in Johannesburg.
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WW1: The South African brigade is called to capture Delville Wood in France in a fierce two-day battle.
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Alfred Beit (53), friend of Cecil John Rhodes and co-founder of De Beers Mining Company and Southern Rhodesia, dies.
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Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co
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Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties,
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen reoccupies Rustenburg. This is the 3rd British occupation of the town.
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Three commandos under the newly appointed Combat General Viljoen, attack about 4 650 British soldiers with twenty field guns an
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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The visiting Dutch commissioner, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, gives several instructions to Gov. Simon van der Stel regarding im
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Former Inkatha Freedom Party chairman Ziba Jiyane registers a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (NDC), wi
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Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the
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A 32-year-old man, Elvis Ramoloyi, is beaten to death by a mob after he wounded two people in an apparent road rage incident in
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