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Riots between ethnic Hausa and Yoruba rocks Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, killing 100 people and forcing thousands
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The two Libyan defendants charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, plead innocent at a pre-tr
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Algeria, ends in a tie 1-1.
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Dr Chris Albertyn (89), former chief executive of “Nasionale Pers” and editor of the Afrikaanse Kinderensiklopedie dies in Klei
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The South Korean businessman Yong Koo Kwong, head of the Daewoo motor company in South Africa, is shot in the driveway of his h
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The South African Government decides to proceed to appoint Ramesh Vassen as Consul General in Mumbai (previously Bombay), India
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A rebel group in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, led by Laurent Kabila says it has captured several towns and part
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The National Party launches a ‘core values’ document in Pretoria. On the same day it is reported that the Provincial Affairs an
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A consortium of Black investors takes over African Life from Southern Life at R160 million. (Beeld, 2 Feb 2004. Vandag in die o
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President de Klerk announces that South Africa’s first non-racial democratic elections will be held on 26-28 April.
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Local Government Transition Act No 209, providing for revised interim measures to promote the restructuring of local government
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Exchange of notes with the government of Bulgaria regarding the establishment of diplomatic relations.
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The terms of reference of the Harms Commission, which is to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forc
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The Ciskei declares a state of emergency in the districts of Mdantsane and Zwelitsha.
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Pres. P.W. Botha resigns as leader of the NP and F.W. de Klerk is elected as new leader, after having served as leader of the N
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A new Black daily paper, promising to expose political ills, appears in Johannesburg. The Sowetan has the same format as the ba
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Opening Parliament, State President Vorster promises South Africa a new deal, new economic and financial measures and a new con
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The Attorney-General of the Eastern Cape states that he will not prosecute any police involved in the arrest and detention of B
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Chief Matanzima announces that all South Africans seconded to the Transkei Army will leave Transkei by 31 March 1978.
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Rebels begin an offensive in Eritrea, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s military government orders bombers, armoured units and troops into o
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An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to
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Idi Amin assumes power in Uganda following a coup that ousted President Milton Obote.
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The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra
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The coastal city of Agadir, in southern Morocco, entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1731, is again razed to the ground. At
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Lightning strikes fifteen people on the Harlequins sports field.
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The United Nations (UN) adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt.
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Moses Siphosezwe Amos Masango, MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Mpumalanga Provincial Government and former ANC off
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Thandiwe Sylvia January-McLean, academic, director of companies and public speaker, is born in Kimberley.
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James Mndaweni, South African worker’s union leader and president of NACTU, is born.
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