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The Republican US President Ronald Reagan accepts that the policy of constructive engagement has failed. He announces a change
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Nelson Mandela rejects South African president P.W. Botha’s offer of a conditional release.
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe narrowly misses a second assassination attempt when a bomb explodes behind his limo.
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The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference decides to uphold the rights of conscientious objectors, expresses its pertur
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It is confirmed by the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Foreign Minister, Dr. H. Muller, visited Lusaka for talks with th
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Dr. Waldheim, announces in New York that he has received a formal invitation to visit Sou
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Mahomed Dawood Barmania, businessman, politician and community worker, dies in Cape Town.
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James Small, Springbok rugby wing, is born.
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Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The
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The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.
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Edwin Alfred Conroy (67), Boer general and politician, dies in Parys, Orange Free State.
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WW2: Britain’s Eighth Army reaches Tunisian border.
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Prof. Pieter Potgieter, former moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Manas Buthelezi, minister of religion and former Bishop of the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern A
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave him up for adoption when he was nine…
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Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon (54), South African born governor of Kenya, dies.
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WW1: Gen. Jan Smuts is appointed commander of the Allied forces in East Africa.
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A new department of the T.U.C. (Transvaal University College, situated in Johannesburg), consisting of the arts and science cou
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Two policemen are killed by a group of Blacks near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to collection of poll-tax, which
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The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Christiaan de Wet invades the Cape Colony for the second time at Zanddrif, near Philippolis.
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Jim Muller, popular SA pianist who developed his own style, is born.
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Lodewicus Johannes du Plessis, academic and professor at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, who laid
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A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most
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Johannes Hendrik Conradie, administrator of the Cape, is born at Rietvlei, district of Prince Albert.
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William Hare (Gobo) Ashley, SA cricket player in a test against England (1888-1889), is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.
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Nicolaas Hofmeyr, clergyman, teacher, author of textbooks and composer, is born in Jacobsdal, CP.
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The first congregation of the Reformed Church (Gereformeerde Kerk) is founded in Rustenburg.
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Erasmus Smit, controversial clergyman among the Voortrekkers because of i.a. a degree of doubt concerning the legitimacy of his
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