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A "Whites only" referendum in South West Africa/Namibia gives overwhelming support for plans for Black majority rule
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Winnie Mandela, placed under restriction in Soweto on 28 December 1976 is now banished to a Black township outside Brandfort, O
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Maggie Laubser (87), SA painter and receiver of several awards, dies in the Strand, Cape.
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Pupils at Phefeni Secondary School start boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans in education. The unrest sp
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State President C.R. Swart opens Melrose House in Pretoria as a museum.
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James James Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei.
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Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco for Latin America on a papyrus boat, Ra II, to prove his theories that ancient Egyptians
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The Minister of Justice banns all protest meetings in the centre of Cape Town, following student protests. Several arrests are
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The Publications and Entertainments Amendment Bill gives the Publications Control Board powers to prohibit subsequent editions
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Prof. Maarten Christiaan Roode, first music professor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and compil
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The South African Bureau of State Security is established (later referred to as BOSS).
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SAA’s Boeing 707 "Windhoek" sets up a new record for the flight between Mauritius and Perth, covering the 3740-mile s
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President Ahmed Ben Bella, of the republic of Algeria, returns home after a 25-day diplomatic tour to the Soviet Union and East
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The Commission of Inquiry into the South African Press tables the second part of its report, severely criticising the reporting
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Dr. Jan Steytler, leader of the Progressive Party, launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill
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French government announces a state of national emergency, giving it special powers to deal with the Algerian revolt and associ
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The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and e
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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack
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Belgian authority in the Congo has almost completely disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country.
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Egypt bars Israeli ships from the Suez Canal.
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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J
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Nationalist China breaks off relations with Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser grants diplomatic recognition to Communist
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Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West
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WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o
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Nairobi is selected to be the capital of British East Africa.
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to further…
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Hunter occupies Christiana, the first ZAR town to be captured.
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Betsie Verwoerd (Elizabeth Schoombie), wife of Dr Verwoerd, is born in Middelburg, Cape Colony.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A ‘flying’ column that has sped its way straight from Kimberley (reinforced further by Canadian troops) comes
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