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James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says conditions are appalling for the estimated 100 000 Rwandan refugees that are being denied
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AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates
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Tens of thousands of people, most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 0
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The government, the ANC and the Freedom Front sign an agreement establishing a framework for a separate state for Whites (’Acco
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Two ANC activists are killed as they try to put up election posters.
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Calvin Thusago, a reporter for SABC is stabbed to death by a mob of youths as they travel back from Sharpeville to film the des
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The South African government submits its proposal for an interim constitution for South Africa to CODESA.
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President F.W. de Klerk proposes holding a multiracial election.
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Minister of National Education Louis Pienaar announces that the government will abolish restrictions on the number of Black stu
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Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de
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Coal miners and industrial and government representatives from seventeen countries, attending an international labour organisat
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A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and
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The Natal Supreme Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria
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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee
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The White-led South African government commits itself to scrapping dozens of laws restricting movements of Blacks.
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The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon
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Dr Abraham J. van der Merwe (81), chairman of the Van Riebeeck fête committee in 1952, dies.
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Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af
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UN officials and various missionaries are expelled from Ethiopia.
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Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 23 April.
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The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merge to form the United Methodist Church.
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Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell (56), SA poet and writer, is killed in a car accident in Portugal
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Aboubakar Jakoet, accountant and director, finance, Pick ‘n Pay Retail division since 1995, is born.
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A group of academics founds the ‘Afrikaans-Duitse Kultuurunie’ (Afrikaans-Deutsche Kultur-Gemeinschaft) in Pretoria.
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Shirley Temple Black, American child actress who became ambassador in Ghana, is born.
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Rebel leader Abdel Krim’s troops enter French Morocco.
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Johannes Stephanus (Jan) Marais, founder of Trust Bank, is born in Fraserburg, OFS.
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The Director of Education in the Transvaal, Dr John Adamson, opens the Potchefstroom Teachers’ College with 131 students.
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