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EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
Clayton Sithole was the last political activist to die in detention. He died in John Vorster Square police station just 12 days before the release of former…
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Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl).
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Patrick McCall, member of Stander’s bank robber gang, is killed by police in Stander’s hideout in Houghton, Johannesburg.
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Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique…
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White Rhodesians approve new constitution to eventually give Blacks control of the nation.
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The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So
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Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs, minister of finance, is elected as the National Party’s candidate to succeed State President Jim Fouch
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The United Party controlled Johannesburg City Council announces the dismantling of petty apartheid practices.
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Mr Denis Howell, the British Minister dealing with sport, says in the House of Commons that if the MCC selects Basil D’Oliviera
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Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die
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UN General Assembly adopts Asian-African resolution calling on Portugal to halt repressive measures against Angola.
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The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy and adopts resolution 1016
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Paul Emile Rossouw, the first athlete in the world to jump higher than 2.13 m at the age of 16, is born in Springs.
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in
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Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
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Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in New Delhi, India.
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The 6th Australian Division of Lieutenant-General Dick O’Connor’s XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fi
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Magnus André De Merindol Malan, former SA Minister of Defence, 1980, is born in Pretoria.
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Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot
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Mohandas Gandhi is released from prison by Gen. J.C. Smuts.
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William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa
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A proclamation of Lord Charles Somerset prohibits the use of Dutch in courts, commencing 1March.
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US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African co
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In a direct defiance to South Africa’s patent laws, Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins
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In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file for divorce under a new law that doesn’t require women to prove ph
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date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African
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The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is incorporated as a private company with the State as sole shareholder.
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The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force
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Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in
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