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Immorality Amendment Act No 21 commences, extending the 1927 Immorality Act to all Black people including Coloureds and Asians.
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WWII: Battle of North Africa ends with German surrender of Cap Bon in Tunisia.
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Carl van Wyk, SA composer, is born.
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Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge
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The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London takes place.
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Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat), journalist and writer who left SA by means of an exit permit and could never return, is born in
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Italy walks out of a League of Nations meeting because Ethiopia attends it.
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William Wilson founds Alcoholics Anonymous in Ohio, USA. Hundreds of these groups are operating in SA.
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Mazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist is born in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal. His first poems were published in news
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Sam Shaffishuna Nujoma, first president of Namibia, is born in Ongandjera, South West Africa.
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”De Nationale Pers” forerunner to Tafelberg Publishers is registered as a company. Six years later the name was translated into
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Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a
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After successful military operations in Sokoto and Kano Britain adds 260,000 km2 to its Nigerian territory.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts enters Kroonstad. President M.T. Steyn proclaims Heilbron in the Orange Free State as his new ca
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Andries du Toit, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
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Hendrik Teodor Bührmann (68), secretary of the ZAR ‘Volksraad’, dies in Ermelo.
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Governor Sir Henry Barkly lays the corner stone of the parliament building in Cape Town.
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The first Free State congregation of the Reformed Church (Gereformeerde or ‘Dopper’ Kerk) is instituted in Reddersburg.
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Sir George Napier annexes Natal for Britain. It became a district of the Cape Colony on 31 May 1844. (Muller: 500 Years: a hist
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King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops. The dates 12 February and 13 May are given by other s
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South African statesman Sir Abercrombie Smith is born at St Cyrus, Scotland.
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Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born. Nurses in SA undertake to honour the oath of Florence Nighting
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Sir George Cathcart, British governor of the Cape, is born in London.
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The first communion at the Cape is served by the visiting Rev. Backerius.
EventInternational Nurses Day.
International nurses day is celebrated around the world every year on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, who is considered the founder of…
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Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for
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The chairman of a PAC disciplinary committee announces that former party President Clarence Makwetu has been expelled from the
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A global conference at the United Nations decides to extend the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty indefinitely.
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SA signs agreement establishing diplomatic relations with Burkina Faso.
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