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National Eagle Day, organised by the Raptor Conservation Group and short-term insurer SA Eagle,is celebrated.
The civil service strike, one of the biggest in SA history, is called off after 28 days.
Pres. Kruger signs his well-known Laaste boodskap (Last message) to the SA people in Clarens, Switzerland.
The SA rugby team loses the three-nations rugby series in Johannesburg 32-35 against New Zealand.
Isaac Baumann, SA pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, dies a week before his 68th birthday in Bloemfontein.
SA extends treaty with the United States on the civil uses of atomic energy of 8 July 1957.
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein.
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC in an Emergency Meeting on May 21, 1950
”An Address at the Mendi Memorial Celebration, Bantu Sports Grounds, Johannesburg.” by Dr. A. B. Xuma, February 23, 1941
An Appeal to Thinking South Africans by Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, 1930s, South Africa
1914: SA, WW1 and Afrikaner Rebellion by Dr Rodney Warwick (Politics Web), 06 August 2014, South Africa
Queen Elizabeth II of the British Empire, including SA at that stage, is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
South Africa announces the development of a revolutionary canon an externally powered gun codenamed EMAK3S, designed by Denel a
SA signs agreement with the government of Namibia on co-operation in the policing of Walvis Bay.
The ANC foreign affairs department hosts an international solidarity conference in Johannesburg (19-21 February), to mobilise i
SA wins the third cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington with 8 wickets and the series with 1-0.
Herbert Chitepo, 52, ZANU leader, is killed in Lusaka when his car blows up in an explosion.
A warrant is issued for Dr Rhoodie’s arrest on a charge of fraud, with an alternative charge of theft.
Eleven people are killed by unknown attackers when a vehicle transporting workers from an ANC stronghold is ambushed.
The multilateral Convention on the International Maritime Organisation, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
Herman Charles Bosman, who wrote under the pseudonym Herman Malan, was a South African author and journalist. He was educated at Jeppe High School and the…
The ANC announces that a high level meeting has been arranged for an unspecified date with the IFP
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
In his address to the senate foreign relations committee, United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State, Herman Cohen, said that the US strongly opposed any…
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in the Free State. She studied medicine at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand and became a missionary…
EventThe 4 x 100m men’s relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling clocked 3 minutes and 13.17 seconds to triumph over the Netherlands…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in…
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
At the conclusion of a forty-four day inquest into the death in detention of white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett, the Johannesburg magistrate, Pieter…