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WWII: The 6th SA Armoured Division, having reached the watershed of Castiglione dei Pepoli in Italy, pushes forward to take Mon
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The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by
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The Council of Ministers of the OAU issues a resolution calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the is
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This Day reports Premier S’bu Ndebele of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an urgent investigation into bombs discovered in the legislat
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The Government Gazette announces an extension to the provisions of the 1964 Tear Gas Act to widen the range of those empowered
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The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t
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Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,
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The United Nations marks the 20th anniversary of the first official report on Aids. An estimated 58 million people have contrac
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The Constitution Amendment Bill of South Africa provides for an increase in the number of members of Parliament from 160 to 170
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The monument at Delville Wood, unveiled on 10 October 1926 to honour the thousands of SA soldiers who were killed there during
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The Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation Act is accepted by the SA parliament, thereby paving the way for the founding of ISCO
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Sewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh, champion for the poor and social worker, dies in Durban. He was born in 1890 and played an active r
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Security police arrive at Naledi High School and attempt to arrest the leader of the local branch of the SA Students Movement.
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The troopship SS Mendi collides with the Darro near the Isle of Wright. It sinks with a contingent of Black SA troops, on t
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Eastern Province Herald reports that for the first time in SA police history three Black policemen were promoted to the rank of
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Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri
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President Leon M’ba is restored to power in Gabon by French troops, following an attempted coup led by Jean-Hilaire Aubume.
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The ANC expresses deep concern about latest revelations that the SA Defence Force had a budget of R 4.38 billion for its secret
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Dr. Allan Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is exonerated by his church for having had an extra-mar
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It is announced that talks between Government officials and an ANC delegation led by Nelson Mandela will open in Cape Town on 1
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Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the
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Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f
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SA golf player and world number three, Ernie Els, scores his second victory in seven days after his third Dubai Desert Classic
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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft
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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se
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An 18-seater plane, owned by Bop Air and chartered to Comair, explodes in mid-air near Germiston, killing all seventeen people
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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft
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Major political organisations sign the National Peace Accord calling for the laying down of arms to create an environment conducive for negotiations
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
On 20 May 2002, South African Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, announced at a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva that South Africa was…
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