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… Queen Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in Africa. …

… Eight foreigners die in a shoot-out in a Ugandan game reserve as soldiers try to free fifteen …

… Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w …

… David H.S. Annecke, pioneer in the field of tropical diseases who helped to bring malaria under control, is born in Aliwal Nort …

… The Xhosa musical, uCarmen in Khayelitsha, wins the Golden Bear award as the best film at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany. …

… Security Police arrest Major A.M. Kozlov, a senior officer in the Soviet KGB, during his third visit to South Africa in 198 …

… the meeting where the South African team to participate in the Olympic Games in 1908 was decided on …

… Lamprecht, the first South African to complete the mile in less than four minutes, is born in Prince Albert. …

… The rugby match between South Africa and Wales in Cardiff ends in a draw.   The South African team could not beat a single ho …

… Groot Constantia, which shipped wine to Napoleon in exile on the island of St Helena until his death in 1821, concludes another …

… Mozambique stresses its continued support for the ANC in a statement made at the funeral of twelve ANC members killed in the So …

… In a meeting between Pres. Mbeki and Pres. Hu Jintao of China in the Union Buildings, Pretoria, the two leaders agree to …

… Israelis sink a 700-ton Egyptian minelayer in the Gulf of Suez in reprisal for the sinking of two Israeli ships at Elath.  …

… William Ayliff is appointed minister of “Bantu Affairs” in the Cape Colony in the first cabinet of Sir John Gordon Sprigg. He h …

… A White family is killed in their caravan whilst camping on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei. Forty African …

… The coastal city of Agadir, in southern Morocco, entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1731, is again razed to the ground. At …

… teacher of art at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and sculptor of several monuments in South A …

… The tobacco industry in Hekpoort and Magaliesburg is in full swing again.   The crop since the war (Anglo-Boer War …

… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of …

… partner, says it plans to invest about US$ 210 million in the country in 19 …

… Horrell, M. (ed)(1982). Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1981 , Johannesburg: South African Bureau of … that ninety-six White soldiers walked out of a camp in April in protest against alleged poor food a …

… their second cinema, the Shiraz. The cinema was housed in the new Rajab Centre in Victoria Street, Dur …

… at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland. …

… at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland. …

… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of …

… An explosion set off in an outdoor bazaar in Cairo’s Old City kills two tourists and wounds at least 19 …

… The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most …

… of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata …

… The area Ohrigstad River in the Lydenburg district is proclaimed as a public gold field after the discovery of gold in the Sela …

… Evidence of guerrilla training in the Soviet Union and Tanzania is given in the trial of six people, on nineteen charges under …