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The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies score an overwhelming victory in elections for a ne
SA signs treaty with Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe relative to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical C
The SABC launches Africa’s first news channel, aimed at providing an African perspective on domestic and international stories.
Hundreds of foreigners, including three SA businessmen, flee from Eritrea after a frontier dispute with Ethiopia leads to bombi
Susan Shabangu, SA Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy and member of the ANC Steering Committee, is born.
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi, SA artist, is born in Guguletu, Cape. He exhibited three times during the 1980s.
In Abuja, a senator announces that Nigeria’s Senate has launched an investigation into allegations that several people were kil
A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr
SA signs agreement with Swaziland and Mozambique on the establishment of a tripartite permanent technical committee on water re
Suspected guerrillas using RPG 7 rocket-launchers attack the Soweto City Council offices. An hour later, 3 limpet mine blas
SA signs amendment with Great Britain to the agreement on civil air services signed on 26 October 1945.
Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi
The Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, to which SA is a party, is signed in Vienna.
The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.
EventThe Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, to which SA is a signatory, is signed in Vienna
The ozone layer protects the earth from excessive ultraviolet radiation which could cause mutations and damage in human, animal and plant cells. In 1974…
In an exclusive interview with "The Herald", the ANC military commander Joe Modise, states that the organisation coul
Struggle hero Dullah Omar and SA transport minister dies in the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in the Western Cape.
The multilateral Convention of the World Meteorological Organisation with Related Protocols, to which SA is a party, is signed
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
Four political detainees: Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border; Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid; Moosie Moolla,…
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
The Great Depression had a profound effect on economies around the world and South Africa was no exception. South Africa's greatest exports at the time were in…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails. The Council was…
Date of the first preserved entry in the journal of Adam Tas, an early Cape Dutch ‘free burger’
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution, and acting on the advice of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), former State President F W…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
Justin Alexander la Guma was born in District Six, Cape Town on 20 February 1925. His father, Jimmy La Guma was of Cuban descent, which made him mixed race in…
Mandela Gets An Emotional New York City Welcome by John Kifner (The New York Times), 21 June 1990
A call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity
The call is made by students of the Cape Peninsular to join the fight for human dignity against the unjust apartheid system.