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’Trumpet Call to Youth” [announcing meeting of September 10, 1944]. Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour reads the terms of surrender to the House of Commons in London after th
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Over four thousand French troops are to be withdrawn from Madagascar at the request of Gabriel Ramanantsoa, the head of the rec
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Islamic militants with alleged links to al-Qaida seize control of Somalia’s capital, unifying the city for the first time in 16
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The first multiparty parliament elections are held in Algeria, but the Islamic party that was set to win the cancelled 1992 ele
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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 first copy of the FAK-volksangbundel is handed in Bloemfontein to the chairman of the FAK, Dr N.J. van der Merwe.
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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 Government is called upon to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act and the Bantu Authorities Act by 29 February1952, fail
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More than 100,000 persons attend a rally in Durban addressed by Nelson Mandela, who urges his followers to end the factional wa
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David H.S. Annecke, pioneer in the field of tropical diseases who helped to bring malaria under control, is born in Aliwal Nort
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Nine army officers in Zaire declare that they will join the rebels under Laurent Kabila who seek to topple Mobuto Sese Seko.
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The Prime Minister condemns, in the strongest terms, a gift of $450,000 announced by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to Sou
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Britain returns the Cape formally to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle. The agreem
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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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The minister of defence announces the re-establishment, as of 1 April 1963, of the ‘Cape Corps’ of Coloured to be employed in n
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The Star newspaper reports that travelling in a cab was falling out of favour very quickly. This trend was attributed to the ch
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Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.)
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Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.)
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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 first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop
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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud
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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T
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The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the
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Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says
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Lionel Ronald Louw, social worker and ordained minister of the Community of Faith is born in Worcester. He was delegate to seve
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair thanks President Nelson Mandela by telephone for his help in persuading Libya to hand over two sus
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