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… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 134. … The Battle of Umzimtsani takes place during the Ninth Border War. Seventy men of the Prince Alfred’s Guard unit are attacked by …

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

… The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, to which SA is a party, is signed …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The International Court of Justice at The Hague rules, by the narrow majority of eight votes to seven, that it has jurisdiction …

… Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the brave Danie Theron scout corps in Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders …

… Sir John George Fraser, SA statesman and private secretary of Pres. J.H. Brand of the OFS, is born in Beaufort West, Karoo. …

… The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc …

… War 2: Lord Salisbury, British premier, rejects the offer of Pres. McKinley of America to act as mediator in the war …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, pp. 11 & 24 … to a question in Parliament Dr Van Niekerk, minister of health, says that thirty-seven cases of AIDS have been diag …

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

… The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft …

… decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al …

… protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto …

… Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania.  He died on 6 Jan. 1995. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 567 … Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, …

… Dirkie Uys (Dirk Cornelis), child hero and son of the Voortrekker leader Piet Uys, is born in the district of Swellendam, CC. …

… Blood flows in the streets of Johannesburg as striking truck drivers turn violently on other truckers on the first day of a pay …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft …

… African Indian Council Bill, dealing with the affairs of the Indian Population, is passed with the support of the Opp …

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

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. | … troopship SS Mendi collides with the Darro near the Isle of Wright.   It sinks with a contingent of Black SA troops, on t …

… The first part of the South African Press Commission’s first report is tabled in parliament by the minister of the interior, Ja …

… The 6th Australian Division of Lieutenant-General Dick O’Connor’s XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fi …

… Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 527. … The Citizen reports that an alleged member of the SADF, Isaiah Moyo, was convicted in Lusaka, Zambia, on three counts of espion …

… 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 …

… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of the I …

… The Attorney-General of the Eastern Cape states that he will not prosecute any police involved in the arrest and detention of B …

… The territory north of the Great Berg River is annexed to the new district of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drosdy with …