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Government extended orders, in force since March, prohibiting anti-government groups from holding meetings, for another six mon
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The Nigerian civil government of President Shehu Shagari is overthrown in a fourth, bloodless, military coup led by Major-Gener
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In his second military coup, Jerry Rawlings overthrows the government of President Hilla Limann in Ghana.
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a poet and writer who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted with Aimé Césaire. After…
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Winnie Mandela is elected to the Black Parents Committee.
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In his New Year’s Eve address the prime minister warns the country that South Africa will have to face the Communist onslaught
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Dr Albertus J.R. van Rhijn (81), newspaper editor, member of parliament and minister of Economic Affairs, dies.
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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster warns that the government would re-assess the Simonstown agreement during 1968. This reaction follo
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The government’s attitude to Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence is defined by the Prime Minister, Dr. Verwoerd,
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The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, called The Central African Federation, is dissolved.
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Final evacuation of Sophiatown by Black residents.
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Gen. Jan Kemp (74), SA warrior, politician and minister of defence, dies in Piet Retief.
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Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.
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E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d
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Lieutenant-Colonel Manie Bredell retires as head adjunct-commissioner of the South African Police.
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The Sahara is traversed by an automobile for the first time.
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Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.
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The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.
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Dulcie Joyce Lind Howes, doyen of ballet in SA, is born in Mossel Bay.
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Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naude, SA actress, is born in Volksrust.
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Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door
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James Manuel Blanckenberg, SA cricket player in eighteen tests (1913-1924), is born in Claremont, Cape Town.
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Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.
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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, dies near Kokstad. Date is given as 30 December 1875 in a
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Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.
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Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The
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A large force of some 12 000 Western Xhosas, led by Makoma (Maqoma), the leader of the Gaika tribe, sweeps into the Cape Colony
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Josias Phillipus Hoffman, first president of the Orange Free State (1854), is born in Stellenbosch, Western Cape.
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The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship.
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