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An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people.
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Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.
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South African President P. W. Botha grants reprieves to the "Sharpeville Six", the six Black South Africans who were
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Fifty-eight die as Egyptian commandos storm a hijacked Egyptian jet in Malta.
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Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s
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Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist guerrilla bases at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique, killing alleg
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A newly formed extreme right-wing organisation, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, is being investigated by the authorities.
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Passports have been withdrawn from three White staff members of the joint Institute of Race Relations.
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Gary Kirsten, SA cricket player and stepbrother of Peter Kirsten, is born in Cape Town.
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Gen. R.C. Hiemstra opens the Castle of Good Hope military museum in Cape Town, reflecting various aspects of military history s
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A police convoy is ambushed in Pondoland.
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Moroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni.
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Britain starts military withdrawal from Suez war zone and petrol is rationed because of fear that the Suez crisis may lead to f
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Ms Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April
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The SA rugby team beats Scotland 16-0 in Edinburgh.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Major-General Smith-Dorrien, leaving only the church standing, razes the town of Dullstroom to the ground.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.
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Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in
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The families who survived the Thirstland Trek and made it to Angola, are naturalised as Portuguese subjects, assured of freedom
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Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, is born in Somer
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Sir John Barrow (84), explorer of the interior of SA, dies in London.
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Petrus van der Spuy, the first clergyman to be born in SA, is born in Cape Town.
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Four children die and two policemen are critically injured when a police vehicle smashed into a minibus taxi and they both burs
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Parts of western Johannesburg are plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph Hospi
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Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.
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Carlos Cardoso, arguably the finest of post independence Mozambican journalists, is assassinated in Maputo.
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Abdelkader Hachani, a moderate leader of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front, is fatally shot in Algiers.
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Anne Paton, widow of Alan Paton, announces her decision to move to England.
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Willie Liebenberg, SA all-in wrestler, dies in Johannesburg.
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