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The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit
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William Henry Brann, SA cricket player (1922-1923), is born in Port Elizabeth.
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Gen. Nicolaas Smit (59), vice-president of the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Pretoria.
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Henry Allen Fagan, chief justice of the Union of SA, cabinet minister and playwright, is born in Tulbach, CC.
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Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included
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The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.
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The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,
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Pieter Gijsbert van Noodt, governor at the Cape who allegedly died while four people were being hung on his order, is born in N
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The National Party’s Roelf Meyer meets with Bantu Holomisa to discuss the formation of a new political movement.
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Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a
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African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela calls for an "independent international monitoring force" to
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Twenty-three IFP residents are killed during a night attack on Crossroads squatter camp, PWV.
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One week after the death of Ahmed Sékou Touré in Guinea, Colonel Lansana Konte is declared president. Touré
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The SA rugby team loses surprisingly against South America with 12-21.
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has a first meeting with President Jimmy Carter of the US.
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The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc
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Rule of Equatorial Africa and the Cameroon by ‘Free France’ is recognised by the US.
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World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat
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Ras Tafari is proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia.
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Dr Emil Cohen (62), discoverer of gold at Lydenburg, dies.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Mostertshoek, near Reddersburg, takes place. The beginning of a two-day battle between Genera
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Gen. James Barry Munnik Hertzog, SA premier, is born at Soetendal, Wellington.
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George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.
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The Merensteijn strands at Jutten Island at the west Cape coast and sinks with a cargo of gold and silver, which is salvaged in
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The shipwrecked sailors of the Nieuw-Haerlem leave the Cape with W.G. de Jongh after an enforced stay of nearly a year.
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Pope John Paul (84), the third-longest serving Pontiff in world history, dies in his private apartment at the Vatican surrounde
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A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot
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