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Mozambique parliament approves a new constitution turning the country into a multi-party democracy after fifteen years of one-p
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SA signs memorandum of agreement regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border bridge over the
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SA signs an air transport agreement with Lesotho for services between and beyond their respective territories.
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Yolande Wessels disappears after school in Kempton Park. Later evidence suggests that she was abducted by paedophile Gert van R
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Reginald Rooseveldt MacIntyre Ndumiso Cingo, evangelist and educationist who was headmaster of the first secondary day school f
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Two South Africans of Indian descent, including the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, are told they could not travel to New Delh
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The results of the White referendum held on the constitutional proposals are announced, showing that 1,360,223 people (65.95%)
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The government announces a plan to allow White and Black businessmen to form partnerships as part of a strategy to draw Blacks
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The United States Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, announces that two further diplomats have been withdrawn from South Africa,
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Benin, Libya and Mauritius insist that the United Nations Security Council bypass the Western powers arms embargo resolution an
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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) unanimously rejects the government’s proposed new constitution, after two days of lengt
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White mercenaries and Black troops invade Congo from Portuguese Angola.
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The Rev. H.J.C. Snijders (69) dies on the pulpit in Swartruggens, western Transvaal.
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The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, to which SA is a party, is signed in London.
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President Fouché opens the first session of the newly elected Bophuthatswana Legislative Assembly in Mafeking (Mafikeng)
Event300,000 refugees in camps near the Nigerian border are facing starvation
300,000 refugees in camps near the Nigerian border were facing starvation after an argument between the Nigerian government and the Red Cross. The Red Cross…
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Rosalyn Fairbank, SA born tennis player, is born.
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Julius Nyerere becomes president of Tanganyika.
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Matthews "Loop-en-Val" Motshwareteu, one of South Africa’s greatest middle-and long-distance athletes, is born in Sow
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British forces enter Gaza, on the western Mediterranean seashore 32 km north of the Egyptian border.
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Lucas Seage, S.A artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg.
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More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War).
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Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric
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Horace (Jock) Cameron (30), SA cricket player in twenty-six tests, dies in Johannesburg.
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Ras (Duke) Tafari is crowned as Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, after the death of Empress Zaudito (Zewditu).
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Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, dies
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Daniel Ferdinand (Danie) Bosman, pioneer and composer of light Afrikaans music, is born. He died on 27 May 1946, in Muizenberg,
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In the preamble to the Bambatha rebellion, Umgeni divisional magistrate, Mr T.R. Bennett, is threatened by twenty-seven armed B
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Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
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