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The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.
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The Black Students’ Movement (BSM) at Rhodes University and the Black Students Society (BSS) at the University of the Witwaters
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A three-day election for sixteen members for the KwaNdebele Legislative assembly starts, with fifty-four candidates. The remain
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The New Nation reports that Captain M. Hlela, state witness in the trial of six Ciskei police officers for the murder of Eric M
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Bophuthatswana’s minister of Health and Social Welfare, Mr L.G. Holela, resigns from the Mangope cabinet.
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Justice Kees van Dijkhorst of the Pretoria Supreme Court sentences the eleven "Delmas Treason Trialists" he had convi
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South Africa cricket players Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock make their debut in a match vs New Zealand, in Durban.
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The All African People’s Conference is held in Accra, Ghana.
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The SA rugby team beats Ireland 17-5 in Dublin.
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The conference of the ANC rejects the Bantu Authorities Act, which, it is stated, was intended to prevent the development of th
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The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 44(I), expressing the opinion that the treatment of Indians in Sou
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WWII: The Union of SA, Australia and the US declare war on Japan.
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W. S. ‘Buster’ Farrer, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1962-64), is born.
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Eduard Amandus Lippert (72), founder of the Modderfontein dynamite factory near Johannesburg, dies in Hamburg, Germany. He obta
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George Fullerton, SA cricketer and keeper-batsman (1947-51), is born.
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General Christiaan Beyers, former Speaker of the Transvaal Parliament and Commandant-General of the Union Defence Force, drowns
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Sir De Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party opposition in SA, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town.
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Britain announces intention to intervene in the Congo Free State if Belgian and German atrocities against natives continues.
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The test between the SA rugby team and England in London ends in a tie with 3 each.
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Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri’s forces out.
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The ZAR government declares Kromdraai on the Witwatersrand as a digging by request of fifty-one diggers.
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Lady Ann Barnard, author of descriptions of early Cape life and wife of Colonial Secretary Andrew Barnard, is born in Scotland.
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Bartholomew Dias anchors for a few days at the present day Walvis Bay, and calls it Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceiçao. He was
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Giriyondo border post opens. Tourists can now travel through the Kruger National Park to Mozambique. The border post is part of
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Egypt brokers an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, announced just hours after
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The US’s deputy State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli praises the efforts of South African President Thabo Mbeki who, on the
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The Commonwealth extends Zimbabwe’s suspension, imposed in 2002. Mugabe announces the country’s withdrawal from the organisatio
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A consortium of philanthropic foundations announces an initiative to provide treatment for an estimated 2.5 million pregnant wo
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against Brazil in a home game. (---(2004). ‘Footballer of the decade: Bafana Bafan
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