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… The United States withdraws the last of three C-130 transport planes sent to Congo in July to help the Kinshasa government airl …

… Prof. Russel Botman is appointed as rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He is the first theologian and also the first mem …

… The New Nation reports that Captain M. Hlela, state witness in the trial of six Ciskei police officers for the murder of Eric M …

… The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in …

… The Battle of Umzimtsani takes place during the Ninth Border War. Seventy men of the Prince Alfred’s Guard unit are attacked by …

… The Battle of Tugela (also Battle of Ndondakusuka) takes place in the war between Cetewayo, eldest son of the Zulu chief Mpande …

… South Africa plays for the first time on the Wanderers in a cricket test against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and wins wit …

… In his New Year’s Eve address the prime minister warns the country that South Africa will have to face the Communist onslaught …

… The crew of a SA helicopter, which were arrested in Mozambique on their way to the scene of the Helderberg disaster, arrive bac …

… candidate, Haile Mphushu, qualifies as mine manager for the first time in South Africa, after the repeal of the law se …

… The International Court of Justice at The Hague rules, by the narrow majority of eight votes to seven, that it has …

… Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, whose death is annually commemorated by the ANC and the SACP on …

… During the night of 18-19 December, four explosions occur at the Koeberg nuclear power station for which the ANC claims respons …

… The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement …

… The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e …

… The first public rally of the new South African Black Alliance (SABA) is held under the leadership of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi in …

… Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon …

… In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a documented report on the low wages paid to Black workers …

… The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se …

… The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been …

… The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, pays a two-day visit to South Africa at the invitation of Har …

… The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i …

… Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Frederik), who was administrator of the Transvaal at the age of 29, is appointed principal of the South Af …

… The first slave, Abraham, a stowaway from Batavia, arrives in Table Bay aboard the Malacca. He is made to work for the company …

… The Government is called upon to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act and the Bantu Authorities Act by 29 February1952, fail …

… The Prime Minister condemns, in the strongest terms, a gift of $450,000 announced by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to Sou …

… The troopship SS Mendi collides with the Darro near the Isle of Wright.   It sinks with a contingent of Black SA …

… The minister of defence announces the re-establishment, as of 1 April 1963, of the ‘Cape Corps’ of Coloured to be employed in n …

… Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.) …

… Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.) …