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EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
After nearly five years in exile in Britain, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia to reclaim his throne with the help of the British. Selassie lost his…
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Londoners celebrate ten years of democracy with the first South African International film Festival (1-9 May), starting with ‘T
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A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are
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International Workers’ Day commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. Although May Day has been
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SA signs an agreement with Zambia on the establishment of representative offices.
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MK member Jackie Matjili is shot dead in Thokoza.
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Cosatu describes the privatisation of public corporations as ‘theft’ in its May Day message to members.
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Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot
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KwaNdebele: Police Act No 11 commences.
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The first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. Its recommendations include registration of Black t
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for
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The Tswana Legislative Assembly comes into being.
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In response to the Yemen dispute, Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser threatens to invade Saudi Arabia.
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Prime Minister Vorster announces that Robert Sobukwe has been taken to Robben Island, where he will be detained indefinitely in
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Tanganyika gains full internal self-government from Britain (technically under a League of Nations Trustee mandate), prior to b
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The Trust Bank of Africa Limited is established in Cape Town.
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Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie, Deputy Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da
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On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte
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Edward, Prince of Wales, arrives in Cape Town on a visit to South Africa.
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American ex-president Theodore Roosevelt kills three lions whilst on safari in British East Africa (now Kenya).
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France declares its support for British interests in the Congo rather than those of Belgium.
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Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.
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William C. Oswell, White scout who saw the Victorian Falls for the first time with Livingstone, dies in Turnbridge Wells, Engla
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Nama chief Josef Fredericks cedes a strip of the Namaqualand coast to Heinrich Vogelsang for the establishment of a German comm
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N.C. (Klasie) Havenga, private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog and minister of finance in Dr. Malan’s cabinet, is born in Faur
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The first telephone exchange in SA is introduced in Port Elizabeth.
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