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… The SA rugby team plays for the first time against Italy and win the match in Rome 40-21. …

… Following a decision of the Johannesburg Bar Council the name of Abram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates. …

… More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War). …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | (2004), 'Milestones', The Star , 2 November. | … The railway line between Johannesburg/Pretoria and Delagoa Bay is opened. The following  source states that the opening wa …

… The Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal beat the Western Province 24-20 on Loftus and win the Currie Cup. …

… International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid is approved by the General Assembly [Resol …

… The Voortrekker Beweging (Afrikaner youth movement) starts a torch-race, ending in Pretoria at the laying of the cornerstone of …

… What Eskom calls a "rolling blackout" continues in the Western and parts of the Eastern Cape today after the shutdown …

… The Unicity Commission is established by the Provincial Minister of Local Government in the Western Cape, Minister Pierre Uys.& …

… Marthinus A. Bergh, leader of the Cape patriots, signs a preliminary petition to bring grievances of the burgers to the attenti …

… The Christian Institute appeals to the Prime Minister, John Vorster, asking him to reconsider the withdrawal or confiscation of …

… The Citizen reports that prominent members of the Soweto community, including the Rev. Frank Chikane, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, Mrs A …

… Establishment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Programme for the Education and Training Abroad of South Africans. …

… The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS. …

… The Rev. Robert Shand, controversial Scottish clergyman of Tulbach, dies on the farm Rhenosterfontein at the Breede River, CC. …

… Niger becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community. The republic adopted a constitution in 1959 but the next year …

… Briefing the media on the outcomes of the cabinet meeting on 7 December, government spokesperson …

… International Monetary Fund announces the termination of South Africa’s request of the 1969 arrangements for the sale of South …

… Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi …

… The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 616(VII) establishing a three-member Commission to study the racia …

… The Ground-nut Advisory Committee, consisting of ten representatives of the main role-players in the industry, is established. …

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS. …

… Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" the East India …

… Hendrik Swellengrebel (60), only governor of the Cape who was born at the Cape, dies in Utrecht, the Netherlands. …

… The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (C …

… The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students …

… Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, who led the trekkers at the Battle of Vegkop against the Matabele (Ndebele), and …

… The Welkom based Thabong Serenade Choir becomes the first choir outside Gauteng to win the Gauteng Choral Music Association’s c …

… The Minister of Justice announces that the Christian Institute has been declared an affected organisation under the Affected Or …

… Evidence of the government’s complicity in the abortive coup plot against the Seychelles’ Socialist government, is taken in cam …