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The South African government begins removing 45 000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophuthatswana homeland
Some 200,000 Coloured workers stay away from work (15 – 16 September) in the Cape Town area. The extent of the strike is unex
Egyptian commander in six-day war with Israel, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, commits suicide.
Augustine Makalakalane, SA Bafana soccer player, is born.
South Africa signs agreement with Portugal (for Mozambique), Northern Rhodesia, and Malawi on postal services.
Sandra Prinsloo, SA actress, is born.
Mike Proctor, SA cricket player, is born.
Bruce Murray Arnott, S.A. artist is born in Highflats, Ixopo District, Natal.
The Johannesburg Empire Exhibition opens at Milner Park.
Boer leader General Koos de la Rey, en route to Potchefstroom with general Beyers, is shot dead when his chauffeur-driven car f
Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter
The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un
Anglo-Boer War 2: Fifteen members of the notorious special British unit called the Bushveld Carbineers send a petition to Colon
The railway line between Cape Town and Johannesburg is completed. The first train arrives after a journey lasting two days,
British forces occupy Cairo.
The George Henri Harrison, 136 tons, is wrecked at Plettenberg Bay after it has left the bay during a storm.
Dr James Barry, colonial medical inspector who will perform what is believed to be the first recorded, and successful, caesarea
Erasmus Smit, religious leader of the Voortrekkers, is ordained as missionary in Torenberg (now Colesberg) by the Reverend Jame
Cyril Ramaphosa by Anthony Butler
EventSA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia
South Africa’s gold-panning team returned with one gold and two bronze medals from the World Gold Championships in Slovakia on 24 August 2007. The team…
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved girls under fourteen, with…
EventThe iconic Athlone cooling towers are demolished
The iconic Athlone cooling towers also know by locals as “The two ladies of Athlone” were demolished in just eight seconds during a "surprise" implosion on 22…
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
On 21 August 1900 the Boers and the British again clashed in what became known as the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal). The battle lasted six days, ending on…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
On 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had been…
EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Zimbabwean People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), military wing of…
Musicians Boycott South Africa
White Lies: Canon Collins and the Secret War Against Apartheid by Denis Herbstein
Ruth First by Chris Van Wyk
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