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Sir Arnold Theiler (69), veterinary researcher and Director of Veterinary Services for the Union of SA at Onderstepoort, dies i
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An international measure is adopted to block rebel groups from trading “conflict diamonds” to fund Africa’s most vicious civil
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The SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman (Herman Malan), shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a qua
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Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co
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Three commandos under the newly appointed Combat General Viljoen, attack about 4 650 British soldiers with twenty field guns an
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An International Hearing on Political Violence in South Africa, which was co-sponsored by the Special Committee against Aparthe
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In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, lawyers for the NP demand an unconditional apology from chairman Desmon
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The Transkei administration withdraws Proclamation no 4 of 1978, declaring the Methodist Church of Southern Africa to be an und
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Radio and television personality Manu Padayachee has died in his sleep in Johannesburg, after an apparent upper respiratory tra
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SA signs protocol with the government of France concerning the use of the Satellite Application Centre at Hartebeeshoek. Kalley
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The SA rugby team beats Ireland in Durban in the second test match 12-10 and wins the series 2-0.
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SA loses the first rugby test match of the series against the British Lions 3-12 on Newlands, Cape Town.
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Voters in Burundi overwhelmingly approve a new power-sharing constitution aimed at bringing to a final end an eleven-year civil
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated on a street in Stockholm. Christer Pettersson (42) later alleged that SA was
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An Anglican priest, the Reverend David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning order and attendin
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Amos Boshomane, unionist (SEAWU) of Germiston, is shot dead after having survived an earlier attack on 25 November 1987.
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The Indigenous Games Project, aiming to promote activities that have a popular appeal to rural communities in SA in particular,
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Father Bernard Huss, founder of the first cooperative associations for Black farmers in SA, is born in Wurtemberg, Germany.
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Mabelindile Archie Luhlabo, chair of SA Teemane Co., Johannesburg, director of the Mineworkers Investment Co. and also of Globa
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Dr. C.P. Mulder, speaking for the National Conservative Party (NCP) discloses that his party has reached an understanding with
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World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.
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Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political
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A British missionary, Canon Farmer, accuses Gen. Smuts of having committed an atrocity against members of his flock at Modderfo
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Lt.-Col. Hermanus Christiaan (Manie) Bredell, chief adjunct commissioner of the SA Police, dies on his farm Zonneheuwel, near M
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Police seal all entrances to Alexandra township near Johannesburg after an Inkatha supporter is necklaced, at least nine people
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The 80,000 striking truck drivers and their employers reached an agreement "in principle" about the workers’ wages du
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Pierre-Claver Rwangabo, the governor of Rwanda’s southern province Butare, is assassinated in an ambush. The prime minister bla
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Rampant Afrikaner Volksfront leaders sweep aside an attempt by former SADF chief Constand Viljoen and his moderate generals to
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Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut (AH
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