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Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a
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South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.
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Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) by the Goldstone Commission, Presiden
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UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o
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South Africa deports self-confessed CCB agent Donald Acheson to London. Irish-born Acheson was implicated in the assassination
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The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d
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Chris Heunis, minister of Constitutional Development and Planning says that R555m is owing in rent arrears, of which R452m is o
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Johan Papenfus, a SA Defence Force rifleman captured in Angola nearly a year previously, returns to South Africa from Cuba. His
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Mthabatha Seema PAC member disappears, last seen first in the company of a policeman at the Seshego magistrate’s court and late
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A Defence White Paper analyses South Africa’s defence requirements in the context of the Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angol
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Bantu Homelands Constitution Act (National States Constitutional Act) No 21, providing for the granting of increased powers to
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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd’s Nationalist Party wins election in South Africa.
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The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid publishes a report recommending that the Security Council call on South Afric
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South Africa signs treaty with Denmark, Norway and Sweden on the temporary amendment of 1958 air agreements.
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Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre
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6000 Indians march in Durban to protest against the Asiatic Bill, and support the South African Indian Congress resolution for
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Germans launch counteroffensive in North Africa in World War II.
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John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in
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General JBM Hertzog, as prime minister, forms the first Nationalist government.
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Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second
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Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr
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Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions to work toward federation.
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John Stephen Curlewis, chief judge of the appeal court (1936-1938), is born in Paarl.
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Building on the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later.
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Petrus van den Burg, organist of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria and composer, is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlan
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Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100
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The Rev. Daniel Lindley institutes the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes it
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Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.
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