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Joseph Matthew Seshego Latakgomo, journalist and editor of several newspapers in the past, is born in Pretoria.
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WW2: General Philippe Leclerc’s Free French troops merge with the British army under the command of Montgomery.
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C.P. Hoogenhout (78), founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (GRA), dies in Wellington, CP.
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WW1: South African troops occupy Swakopmund, German South-West Africa.
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A commission of public safety is appointed in Cape Town after industrial upheaval breaks out.
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
Catherina Charlotte Kotzenberg was born in De Aar on 13 January 1910. She started writing books at the age of thirty and chose to write under the pseudonym,…
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Jacob de Villiers, justice of the Appeal Court, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Die Kerkbode, official organ of the Dutch Reformed Church, is published for the first time.
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Albert van de Sandt Centlivres, chief justice of SA and chancellor of the University of Cape Town, is born in Cape Town.
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The village Roossenekal is proclaimed. It is named after Field-cornet Stephanus Johannes Roos and Comdt. Frederik Senekal, who
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William John Cormack Brebner, senator of the Union of South Africa and life-long chairman of the Afrikaner Party, is born in Bu
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The French explorer, Marion du Fresne, discovers Marion Island and Prince Edward Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
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Joanna van Riebeeck, daughter of Jan and Maria van Riebeeck, is born at the Cape.
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Harvesting of the first wheat planted at the Cape by Jan van Riebeeck.
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Comet McNaught, reported to be the brightest comet visible from earth in the last thirty years, is seen at its brightest in d
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Steve Tshwete, Minister of Sport and Recreation, holds talks with representatives of nine national sports organisations, urging
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Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam
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Leaders of South Africa’s major sports federations agree to work towards a blanket moratorium on all contact with international
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Forty-five (thirty-five?) ANC mourners are killed during an attack on a funeral vigil for an ANC member in Sebokeng.
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SA signs a medical co-operation treaty with the government of the Republic of China, providing advanced training for medical an
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Sithembele Zokwe, detained in terms of the Transkei Public Security Act of 1977, is shot dead at his home in Nqamakwe by police
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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) decides to give the government’s constitutional proposals ‘a reasonable chance’, provid
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Joshua Polumo Mohapeloa, regarded as Lesotho’s foremost composer and choral master, dies in Maseru, Lesotho.
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A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in spo
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Philemon (Duma) Pearce Dumasile Nokwe, first African advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and a politician, dies.
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Gagathura (Monty) Mohambry Naicker, medical doctor and prominent politician, dies.
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North African nations of Libya and Tunisia announce agreement to merge as a new republic, the Islamic Arab Republic". The
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A notice providing for compulsory education for Indians is gazetted.
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The Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembl
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