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Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology and ANC Women’s League president Winnie Mandela is accused of misusing
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Somali gunmen kidnap two Italian aid workers and an Egyptian UN peacekeeper is killed.
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Angolan government troops break into Unita rebel-held highlands in an attempt to open a supply corridor to the embattled city o
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Newspapers headlines a revitalised, reconciliated ANC-NP emerging from its most recent bosberaad, with a format for a governmen
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Minister of Home Affairs Gene Louw announces that race classification for newborn babies and immigrants has ceased with immedia
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The cricket tour by Mike Gatting’s England team is curtailed by four matches, including the second Test, due to pressure from t
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The house of exile Nat Serache in Botswana is blown up in a cross-border operation.
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André Stander, SA bank robber is killed in a shootout in the US.
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15,000 people attend Neil Aggett’s funeral in Johannesburg.
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General Murtula Ramat Muhammed, Nigerian head of state since a bloodless coup in 1975, is assassinated during a failed military
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The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) commences with lectures in a temporary hall in Braamfontein.
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The unofficial Dutch mission, under Professor W.G. de Gaay Fortman, coming to South Africa to discuss apartheid, is cancelled.
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Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot trying to escape from prison.
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UN security council urges use of force to prevent civil war in the Congo.
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The first French atom bomb is tested in the Sahara desert.
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Prof Ahmed Cassim Bawa, academic, director of several companies and winner of scholarships and awards, is born.
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WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.
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The theological seminary of the Reformed Church is opened in Potchefstroom with Jan Lion Cachet as professor.
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Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc
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Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, brother of Ernest (of the South African Diamond Corporation), is born in Germany.
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The railway line between Cape Town and Eerste River (34 km) is completed.
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The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.
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The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape
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A 463-ton British wooden ship, Childe Herold, en route from Bombay to London and carrying more than 1300 pieces of ivory, is wr
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Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States
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An edict is issued in the Cape Colony forbidding any White person from settling beyond the Gamtoos River.
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Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease wreaks
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John Lancaster leads first East India Company’s voyage from London.
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Tunisia ends in a tie 2-2. .
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