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The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Saudi Arabia ends in a tie with the score 2-2.
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The Free Mason Movement is founded in London. It was introduced into SA from the Netherlands in 1772.
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Somalia’s foreign minister and a representative of the faction that controls the country’s capital sign an agreement that calls
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Gerrit Adriaan Middelberg, pioneer in the field of railway systems in SA, is born in Boskoop, the Netherlands.
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The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Commission rejects two crucial recommendations that employers of illegal labour, an
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Anglo-Boer War 2: “Steinaecker’s Horse”, an irregular unit of about fifty mercenaries in British service, using Black armed t
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Helgard Dewald Johannes Bodenstein, jurist, first secretary of external affairs in SA and editor of several law publications, i
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Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo
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André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, dies in Bloemfontein in poverty.
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SA signs a declaration of intent on cooperation with the Russian Federation in the field of arts and culture.
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General J.M.B. Hertzog’s National Party wins the South African general election with an outright majority: race plays a critica
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An explosion shooks the Kenyan capital Nairobi, sending shards of glass spewing outside a downtown restaurant, killing at least
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Probable birth date of Moses Kottler, SA sculptor, in Joniskis, Lithuania. He died in March 1977, in Johannesburg.
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An action committee called the Soweto Students’ Representative Council is formed to organise the demonstration, with two repres
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Etienne Leroux (Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux), SA author of, inter alia, ‘Magersfontein, o Magersfontein!’ is born in Oudts
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Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA
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The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union’s annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.
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Stella Sigcau is elected Transkei’s third prime minister since the SA government accorded the territory independence in 1976. D
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Three British mercenaries, Andrew McKenzie, John Barker and Costas Georgiou and an American, Daniel Gearhert, are sentenced to
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An Egyptian and three Kenyans, along with four other truck drivers, are taken hostage by a militant Iraqi group.
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SA signs agreement concerning the establishment of a Joint Permanent Commission for Co-operation with the government of Mozambi
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An Egyptian appeals court acquits eleven men of debauchery for allegedly engaging in homosexual activity. President Hosni Mubar
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The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second Interim Report recommending an effective embargo on the s
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The Australian rugby team gains its biggest ever victory over SA by beating the Springboks 32-6 in Brisbane.
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The ANC sent a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end violent police action.
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Adv. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, 5th premier of SA, is born on the farm Klipfontein, district Willowmore, CP.
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
Michael Paul Sibisi was born in Umkhumbane, Durban on 23 September 1948. He studied art at the Ndaleni Educational Training School under Lorna Peirson. After…
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The four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s
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SA signs treaty with Southern Rhodesia on the continuation of the workman’s compensation agreement of 11 October 1958.
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