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The Security Council, meeting in Addis Ababa, adopted resolution 311 (1972) condemning apartheid; recognising the legitimacy of
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The prime minister of Lesotho, Chief Jonathan, is reported to be prepared to co-operate with the South African government.
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Crew of the US carrier FDR are refused leave in South Africa because of the apartheid laws.
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Abram Fischer is committed for trial by a Pretoria magistrate. He pleads not guilty to all allegations.
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The number of men required for military training in 1964 is to increase by 60%, i.e. from 10,368 to 16,537.
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The International Court of Justice announces that in the South West Africa cases (Ethiopia v. South Africa; Liberia v. South Af
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Civil war erupts in Angola.
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Jabulane Albert Mabuza (Jabu), chair/director/trustee of numerous companies and presenter of papers both national and internati
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Vincent Baloyi, SA artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at t
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Sir Herbert Baker (83), architect of the Union Buildings and Groote Schuur Hospital, dies in London.
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WW2: A British Panzer division occupies Maus, Libya.
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The “Ossewabrandwag” (OB) is founded as an Afrikaans cultural and political organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of C
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Two South African aviators, Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand, hoping to become the first airmen to fly from England to Cap
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Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé, Boer general during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies in Potchefstroom.
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Mattheus Uys Krige, author, dramatist, poet and five times winner of the “Akademieprys” award for translated literature, is bor
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Herero Revolt in German South West Africa: Omaruru is relieved after a fierce battle between Franke and the Ovaherero.
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The first Sunday newspaper in South Africa, the Sunday Times, appears with George Herbert Kingswell as editor.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Abraham Esau, Calvinia Coloured leader and martyr who aided the British Imperial cause, is brutally assault
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Isaac Daniël Buys, SA cricket player in one test, is born in Somerset East, eastern Cape.
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Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, is born in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia.
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Rolland Beaumont, SA cricket player in five test matches (1912-1914), is born in Newcastle, Natal.
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British forces under Garnet Wolseley burn Kumasi, Ghana, ending Ashanti War.
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James Chapman (90) dies in Kimberley. He was the first explorer who took photographs of places he visited.
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Zulu king Dingane cedes "the place called Port Natal together with all the land annexed from the sea to the north" to
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Construction of a breakwater begins in Table Bay.
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World Cancer Day.
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More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.
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A telephone survey done by Research Surveys, discloses that about two-thirds of respondents said SA education is in a crisis an
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final versus Tunisia 2-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg.
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