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French detonate their second nuclear bomb in the Sahara.
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Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke
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The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t
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The African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress is banned in South Africa.
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The Rondalia Touring Club, a motoring organisation, is founded.
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The Minister of Native Affairs is empowered to banish persons without right of trial or appeal.
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The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and
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Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag
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Zaudito, first reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies.
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The Schlesinger Organisation, with government approval, forms the African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg, in which th
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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote
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The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a
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Catharina Felicia van Rees, musician who published the first collection of SA folk songs, dies in Gelderland, the Netherlands.
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The Union Weather Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi
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Naboth Monyadioe Moreleba Mokgatle, trade unionist, political activist and writer, is born in Saron, Phokeng, Rustenburg. He le
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Max Gordon, industrial chemist and trade unionist, is born in Cape Town.
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At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert
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The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.
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N.C. Gey van Pittius founds the Republic of Goshen on land assigned to them by Machette of Kunwana, after Boer volunteers assis
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The Midlands Ladies’ Seminary, forerunner of the College of Education, is founded in Graaff-Reinet.
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Edgar Wallace, SA author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
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The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, British philanthropist who influenced British policy in South Africa to a large extent, is born in Es
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two presidents from two countries were…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
On 5 April 2011, South African photographer Anton Hammerl was killed, allegedly by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline. According to eyewitnesses, Hammerl’s…
EventMusician, Gito Baloi of Tananas fame, is killed
Musician Gito Baloi was shot dead on 4 April 2004, during a hijacking on his way home from a concert. Gito Baloi was born in Mozambique on 30 September 1964…
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Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-
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Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris
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Blacks comprise 73,9 % and Whites 26,1 % of the full-time component of the Department of Defence. The department has been reduc
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