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South Africa’s Minister for Trade Mr. Trevor Manuel disclosed that South Africa had been formally invited to join the SADC.
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The second interim report of the Commission of Inquiry regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, headed by
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The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s
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SA’s Minister of Development Aid Gerrit Viljoen, announces that following allegations about the mismanagement of funds in the L
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Anti-apartheid Afrikaners led by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, IDASA director, meet with the ANC in Frankfurt, to discuss a post-a
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A SA Defence Force recruiting office is blown up in Durban.
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RENAMO denies in Lisbon that the movement is receiving assistance or supplies from SA.
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Dr. Milton Obote, deposed as Uganda’s president by Idi Amin in 1971, returns home from exile. He regains the presidency in Dece
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The schools’ boycott spreads to universities and to rural areas and the ‘homelands’.
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An unsuccessful pro-Soviet military coup is mounted in Angola by Nito Alves.
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The prime minister rejects the idea of a ‘canton’ system saying it is certainly not practical politics at this stage.
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The Independent United Party decides to adopt the name of the South African Party
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President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a fifteen-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
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Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian premier (1947) and staunch supporter of the Indian cause in SA, dies.
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Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg. He was born deaf and atten
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Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta is elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya.
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The Casbah area of Algiers is sealed off as French troops search for weapons caches
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Danie Bosman, SA composer, dies in Muizenberg, Cape Town.
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WWII: North Africa. General Erwin Rommel, now reinforced with the 15th Panzer Division, recaptures Halfaya Pass.
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Prof. Johan Heyns, well-known professor of theology at the University of Pretoria and moderator of the General Synod of the DRC
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Lamar Crowson, later professor at the South African College of Music, is born in Florida, USA.
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The Hertzog Prize is instituted by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Ar
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Dr Cedric Namedi Phatudi, chief minister of Lebowa (1973), is born in the district of Pietersburg (now Polokwane).
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Prof. Abel Jacobus Coetzee, SA anthropologist, is born on a farm near Lichtenburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The peace proposals, as approved by the British Cabinet, are wired to Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal River and occupies the town of Vereeniging.
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Harry Stratford Caldecott, SA painter, is born in Kimberley.
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The first group of Dorslandtrekkers (Thirstland trekkers), under leadership of Gert Alberts, leaves Pretoria.
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Robert Moffat, of the London Missionary Society, arrives with his wife at Maruping, Northern Cape, to assist with missionary wo
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