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Britain’s Queen mother, widow of King George VI and mother of his successor to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 101.
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The SA government seals off all borders with Transkei to prevent any further cross-border attacks from Transkei by the Pan-Afri
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Chief Patrick Mphephu, Chief Minister of Venda, is to hold talks with Prime Minister John Vorster on the issue of homeland inde
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UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar
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The first report of giraffes in South Africa by a European is made by Jonas de la Guerre, whose expedition to Namaqualand finds
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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.
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Britain starts military withdrawal from Suez war zone and petrol is rationed because of fear that the Suez crisis may lead to f
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Anna E. Bliss and Abbie P. Ferguson arrive in Cape Town by boat from New York to start the Huguenot College in Paarl, CC.
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Twelve children, aged 13-15, are trampled to death as panicked pupils flee what they think is a fire in their northern Nigerian
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Angola’s government and its rebel foes agree to a cease-fire in their eighteen-year war. The final cease-fire agreement was onl
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Colin Mark de Sousa, who donned a SADF uniform and gained entry into the premises of the Wits Command to make a surveillance of
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Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i
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Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime Minister announces res
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At its first legal congress in four decades, the South African Communist Party (SACP) decide to appoint Mr. Chris Hani as its n
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The conference of the ANC rejects the Bantu Authorities Act, which, it is stated, was intended to prevent the development of th
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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on
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The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu
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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu
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The International Court of Justice at The Hague rules, by the narrow majority of eight votes to seven, that it has jurisdiction
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A further 2,147 mile section of the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad is completed when lines meet at the Sudan-Congo border. africanhisto
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Robert Koch, German scientist who visited SA to investigate the causes of rinderpest, is born in Germany. He was awarded the No
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Kenyan Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She is the first African woman to receive the prize. Prof. Maath
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Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, collects his prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.
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In a meeting between Pres. Mbeki and Pres. Hu Jintao of China in the Union Buildings, Pretoria, the two leaders agree to intens
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Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area
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Elections for the Coloured and Indian Parliament under the new Constitution, to be held on 22 August 1984, are announced by the
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The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape
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The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian
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News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre
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