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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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Operation PROTECTO (3 February 1994 – December 1994) of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to restore peace on
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Belgium grounds a planeload of President Mobutu Sese Seko’s newly printed money in a bid to force him to surrender power.
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President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela jointly accept the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Pri
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According to a study by the Human Sciences Research Council, violent attacks by Whites against Blacks have increased sharply in
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A Government Gazette of this date amends and eases security emergency regulations.
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Stones, empty soft-drink cans and sticks are hurled at rebel England cricket captain Mike Gatting by a crowd of anti-tour demon
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The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the
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Fighting between Inkatha and the United Democratic Front supporters spills into central Pietermaritzburg when the Cosatu office
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu becomes the first Black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg.
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Dr Anton Carlisle Hartman (63), South African conductor and musician, dies in Johannesburg.
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Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re
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The Venda Attorney General announces he has ordered an inquiry into the death of Mr. Muffle to be held in the Sibasa Magistrate
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The six-man Commission of Inquiry into security legislation, under the chairmanship of Justice P.I. Rabie, presents its report
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The President’s Council is formally inaugurated as a policy-advisory, problem-directed, reform-orientated and future-looking bo
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tours Africa as President Carter’s envoy.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, ‘Pik’ Botha, says in the House of Assembly that the Biko affair has done endless harm to South
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Gen. Tafari Banti (Teferi Benti), Ethiopia’s chief of state, is killed in gun battle that breaks out around Addis Ababa headqua
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Julius Louis Saks, optometrist who received several awards, including the award of Honorary Life Fellowship of the Academy by t
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Heidi Saayman, SA photographer, is born in the Transkei.
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