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… A Second Defence Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th …

… The new Constitution is finally approved by the 490-member Constituent Assembly, two minutes past 12:00, the final deadline set …

… Concluding its investigation into the crash in the mountains near George in the Western Cape in which former SA cricket captain …

… Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po …

… The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the …

… The Star reports that delegates at the annual congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were urged by leading …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people …

… In preparation for the next general election, two anti-Malan parties are formed: the Federal Union Party and the Liberals (led …

… Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o …

… Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas …

… The Prime Minister of SA maintains that the country is economically so strong that it can withstand economic sanctions. The onl …

… The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon …

… Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa. … Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people …

… A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif …

… Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town. …

… The Human Rights Commission (HCR) of South Africa says that the level of violence in the country has reached unprecedented leve …

… Following the death of Lord Carnarvon in Egypt, owners of Egyptian antiquities swamp the British Museum in the hope that they w …

… The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit …

… World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat …

… The shipwrecked sailors of the Nieuw-Haerlem leave the Cape with W.G. de Jongh after an enforced stay of nearly …

… The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote …

… The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon …

… Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West …

… Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond …

… The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi …

… Nine policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti …

… Nominations for the elections close with candidates for the 165 seats in the House of Assembly being nominated as follows: Nati …

… The African People’s Liberation Army (APLA), armed section of the PAC, is disbanded in the Umtata stadium by Dr Stanley Mogoba. …

… The Deputy Leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on …

… The Star. 18th March 2003. Milestones … The strike by mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, also known as the Rand Revolt, ends.   More than 200 people were killed …