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The first meeting of the Joint Passive Resistance Council of Natal and the Transvaal is held in Durban.
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Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.
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Qaquawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela, all of them activists, disappear after allegedly being escorted to a waiti
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R.H. Strachan is found guilty of conspiring to cause bomb explosions and is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
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The Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, announces in Parliament that Local Authorities must is
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Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko leaves the rebel-threatened capital and flees to Gabon to meet African leaders.
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The Advocate-General’s report confirms that the Herstigte Nasionale Party’s office telephones have been illegally tapped and ca
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Capital Media (Pty) Ltd is founded and that makes the publication of the first Rekord/Record newspaper possible.
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Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w
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The Minister for Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that relevant urban Black leaders will be consulted
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Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.
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The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.
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Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.
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Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for
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João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal.
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The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.
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Peace is established between the Cape government and the Xhosa under King Hintsa, ending the Sixth Frontier War.
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Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar
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Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth.
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Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She cam
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South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections (26-29 April) for the national assembly and provincial parliaments start.
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Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor
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The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o
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The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.
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The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces in Parliament that South Africa and Mozambique are to establish joint operational centre
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A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and
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Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af
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