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SA recalls its ambassador to Britain for urgent consultations, after four South Africans and a Briton are charged in Coventry w
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Pik Botha, SA ambassador in the USA, returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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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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During an emergency debate in Transkei’s Parliament in Umtata, Chief Matanzima threatens to cut diplomatic links with South Afr
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Eugene Marais, SA poet, naturalist, lawyer and journalist, shoots himself on the farm of Gustav Preller, near Pelindaba. Joyc
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Raymond Hoffenberg leaves South Africa on an exit permit, without possibility of return, to take up a research and consultant’s
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John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist, dies in Katutura Township, Windhoek, Namibia. He moved to South West Africa in 1956.
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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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Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets with a group of Haitian legislators to negotiate an end to Haiti’s consti
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South Africa finally breaks the Nigerian jinx via a 2-1 well-deserved victory in an exciting Nelson Mandela Challenge clash at
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Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel. The Egyptian foreign minister and his deputy resign ov
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Prince Arthur of Connaught, the grandson of Queen Victoria, arrives in SA as governor-general. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria New
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President F.W. de Klerk announces SA beaches open to all racial groups and promises repeal of Separate Amenities Act.
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Pretoria celebrates its centenary in lavish fashion, under mayoralty of Dr Hilgard Muller, later SA Minister of Foreign Affairs
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SA signs co-operation agreement regarding the promotion of investments and amends bilateral air services agreement with the Rep
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The Zimbabwean Supreme Court mitigates the sentence of Odile Harrington, found guilty of spying for SA, to twelve years.
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The Sunday Times reports an African Peer Review Mechanism report submitted to President ‘s cabinet three weeks ago, has urged
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The Protocol to Amend the Conservation on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is
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Niger becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community. The republic adopted a constitution in 1959 but the next year
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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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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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An explosion at the offices of the Department of Co-operation and Development in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, causes damage to t
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Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban. http://www.sahistory.org.za/
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General Louis Botha, SA prime minister, unveils a monument on the grave of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Z
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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M
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Three SA cabinet ministers, Dr Sibusiso Bengu, minister of education, Joe Modise, minister of defence and Mac Maharaj, minister
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The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra), an independent non-profit-making organisation, is established with the twof
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Prime Minister John Vorster achieves an overwhelming victory in the General Election, taking 136 of the 165 parliamentary seats
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A document released in Cape Town, discloses that SA ministers condoned the murder of Black demonstrators during the 1976 riots.
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