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SA signs agreement concerning the establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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Four White guerrillas, known as the Broederstroom Four, are arrested and an arms cache is discovered.
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A report by the US Department of Mines claims that a ban on imports of South African minerals will cost the US the equivalent o
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The Anti-Apartheid Movement in London ends its seventeen-year boycott of Barclays Bank for its South African ties.
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Former Transkeian President Kaiser Matanzima is served with a banning order by his brother George, the Prime Minister.
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South Africa’s longest serving White political prisoner, David Kitson, is released, seven months short of completing his twenty
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The leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is charged in the Pretoria Regional Court with disclosing secre
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The Prime Minister announces that eight very important Western intelligence agents, held by the Soviet Union, and one South Afr
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Eleven Soweto school pupil leaders are convicted of sedition
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The executive of the South African Confederation of Labour (SACL) approves the government’s White Paper accepting the Wiehahn R
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In a by-election in Westdene, Johannesburg, ‘Pik’ Botha as National Party candidate defeats the Herstigte Nasionale Party by 9,
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According to a report by the South African Institute of Race Relations, a total of 617 Black persons, of whom it names 558, are
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The theatre, movie and broadcasting arts committee of the FAK is established with Prof. G. Cronjé as chairman.
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The President of the National Union of South Africa (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning order under the Suppression of C
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The National Professional Football League (N.F.L.) is founded by eleven clubs from Johannesburg and Pretoria, with Snoyman as c
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Plans for independence of the Gold Coast (becomes Ghana in March 1957) from Britain are approved by the Colonial Secretary.
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Britain threatens to use force against Egypt over the Suez Canal dispute.
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The first meeting of the Joint Passive Resistance Council of Natal and the Transvaal is held in Durban.
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Joseph L. Levy (57), editor of the Sunday Times, dies in Johannesburg.
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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Gustav von Vaerst’s 5th Panzer Army finally surrenders on the Cape Bon peninsula
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WWI: The force of the Union of South Africa enters Windhoek, capital of South West Africa. The dates 12 May and 13 May are give
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Taza, Morocco, is occupied by French troops.
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The Draft South Africa Act is signed in by a national convention in Bloemfontein, after fierce debate.
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Gen. Louis Botha lays the corner stone of the Dutch Reformed church in Bosman street, Pretoria.
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Prof. Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe (Boerneef), well-known SA poet and author, is born on Boplaas, district Ceres.
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel, well-known British astronomer (in South Africa 1834-38), dies in Collingswood, Kent, Engla
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Sir Maximillian Michaelis, Kimberley diamond buyer and broker, is born in Germany.
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Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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