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The Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head.
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The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, is detained by the police, accused of subversi
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It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South
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Army mutiny in Tanganyika over pay is put down with British assistance.
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South Africa denies port facilities to Indian vessels in retaliation for Indian sanctions against South Africa.
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Fort Klapperkop and Fort Skanskop, Pretoria, are opened to the public.
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South African athlete Paul Harwood Nash is born in London. He was viewed at one time as the fastest White athlete in the world.
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Shanmugam Manickam, group executive, Strategic Planning, Telkom (1997-) is born. Formerly he occupied various important telecom
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King Farouk is declared the spiritual leader, or Caliph, of Islam.
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Herero Revolt: A repair team begins to repair the destroyed state railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Tabanyama, Natal front, a group of Indian stretcher bearers, among whom the young Durban att
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British troops under Lord Chelmsford pitch their camp on the slopes of Isandhlawana, where Zulu warriors attack them two days l
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Xhosa warriors overrun the Eastern Cape frontier.
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A mass meeting in Cape Town requests British government to recognise British settlement in Natal.
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Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born
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Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd is reported off Cape Town.
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The Dageraad, with salvaged treasure from the Gouden Buis, which had run ashore at St Helena Bay, is wrecked on the reefs off R
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The Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group involved in the country’s 19-year-old c
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The Samora Machel Monument is unveiled in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga.
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At least twenty-two people are killed and 4000 are rendered homeless by a devastating storm in Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape.
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Collen Chauke, South Africa’s most wanted suspect in a cash-in-transit heist, is captured in Nelspruit
Colin Chauke, South Africa's most wanted suspect in a cash-in-transit heist, is captured in Nelspruit. He died on the 21st Nov. 2003 in Kalafong hospital.
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A powerful car bomb explodes outside a cafe in downtown Algiers, killing at least twenty people and wounding sixty others hours
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President Nelson Mandela holds meetings with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and later declares he will initiate a round of urgen
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Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d
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The Federal Republic of Germany has informed the Oslo-based World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with Sout
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Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President by President P.W. Botha
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The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc
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The Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre.
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In a referendum organised by King William’s Town municipality, the voting is overwhelmingly against incorporation into the Cisk
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