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The League of Nations dissolves after twenty-six years and is replaced by the United Nations, with its first meeting in London.
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The League of Nations, established in 1919, holds its first meeting in London.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Barolong chief Wessel Montshiwa advises his people not to assist the British.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Frederick S. Roberts arrives at the Cape, replacing Sir Redvers Buller as commander-in-chief of the Brit
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France establishes protectorate over Ivory Coast.
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British troops enter Zululand and the Anglo-Zulu war starts.
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Andries Dreyer, missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town.
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Prof. Dirk Postma, founder of the Reformed Church in South Africa in 1858, is born in the Netherlands. Together with the Re
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Signing of the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British under Gen. David Baird at Papendorp (presently Woodstock)
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Dr Heinrich Martin Lichtenstein, Cape explorer, is born in Hamburg, Germany.
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Britain’s King Charles II grants charter to Royal African Colony.
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The Sunday Times reports that FIFA president Sepp Blatter will receive the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo from President T
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After nearly three years of negotiations, Sudan’s government and main rebel group sign the final agreement to the Naivasha, Ken
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurates a pumping station designed to send Nile river waters west from Nasser Lake to crea
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The National Crime Information Management Centre releases figures confirming South Africa’s designation as the most violent cou
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Home Affairs Minister Buthelezi is appointed chairman of the KwaZulu Natal House of Traditional Leaders Executive Committee.
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Gunmen attack a delegation including African National Congress chairman Cyril Ramaphosa in a township in South Africa, killing
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In an historic victory, government troops capture the headquarters of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in central Angola. Savim
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Black children are admitted to 205 schools previously reserved for Whites only.
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The ANC proposes a major All Party Conference on Constitutional Negotiations, a step welcomed by the government.
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Seven people are killed and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers,
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A bomb explodes in a major departmental store in the centre of Johannesburg.
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Security police raid English-language newspapers, seizing documents related to an advertisement calling for the legalising of t
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Draft legislation is published giving owners and managers of hotels and restaurants the right to admit Blacks.
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Rhodesia closes its borders with Zambia to try to cut off Black liberation forces.
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France agrees to sell Mirage military jets to revolutionary regime in Libya.
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Gary Teichmann, Springbok rugby captain, is born.
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An estimated 500 people suspected of being rebels have been executed by Congo government forces in Stanleyville in six weeks si
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Building on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt.
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