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Almond Tshabalala (36), Daveyton, PWV, member of Daveyton Interim Committee, is shot dead by an unknown gunman.
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Obed Amon Mwanza of Zimbabwe is killed and six members of the ANC injured in a car bomb explosion in Bulawayo.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe sign a defence and security agreement under which an attack by SA on either country will be taken as an
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Security Police in Port Elizabeth, detain three black civil rights leaders after the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (P
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Ugandan diplomat Bernadette Olowo is the first female ambassador to the Vatican.
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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Chief Jonathan of Lesotho meet in Cape Town. A joint statement emphasises their belief in peace
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Abraham Jonker (60), Afrikaans novelist, dies.
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Sirr al-Khatim al-Khalifa, the Sudanese prime minister, admits to providing aid to Congolese rebels.
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Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser lays the foundation stone of the Aswan High Dam, Egypt.
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Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, dies i
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Federal Council of Nigeria meets for the first time.
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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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