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City Press reports that one suspected guerrilla was killed in a shootout with Ciskei police in October and two women are subseq
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The United Arab Republic informs the United Nations that it has banned South African ships from entering UAR ports, and that, w
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Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta, with Mietje Versveld as company, leave on a 167-day journey of explor
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A meeting is held between Prime Minister John Vorster and eight ‘homeland’ leaders to discuss the unrest, which has left at lea
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SA signs multilateral treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space. Al
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South African artist and eminent portrait painter Neville Lewis is born in Cape Town. (Among his sitters were Field-Marshal Mon
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At least one-fifth of South Africa’s military is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota
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The Freedom Alliance is formed. It seeks to gain concession on federalism from the ANC and to displace the National Party.
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Habib Mohamed (A.M.) Rajab, trader who possessed the biggest collection of oriental art in SA, and remembered for his role in p
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SWAPO claims it was not responsible for placing landmines in the Caprivi Strip and that the guerrillas were not operating from
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, is born in Pretori
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Sixteen schoolchildren and their bus driver are killed in Algeria when their bus is sprayed by gunfire at a false road block.
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South African Pieter de Waal has been appointed as head of the sales and marketing division for BMW Motorrad worldwide – the
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SA signs agreements with the government of the US on missile-related export/import restrictions and with the UN Development Pro
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According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.
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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, is born in Well
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It is officially announced that the British and South African naval units will engage in a month of joint manoeuvres in South A
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Jacob Molekele, 16 years old, is shot in head by policeman during altercation between police and other arrested youths in polic
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Jacob Molekele, 16 years old, is shot in head by policeman during altercation between police and other arrested youths in polic
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A Rhodesian plane is shot down with a SAM 7 missile and thirty-eight of the fifty-six passengers are killed instantly, while gu
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Police seize documents and videos from the home of the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Officially recorded camp population for White camps is 105 347 and the camp fatalities for August stand at
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Maluzi Knowledge Nkanyedzi Gigaba, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and form
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Prime Minister Vorster says that the number of diplomats from African and Asian countries can be expected to increase, as South
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Ndamase, son of Pondo chief Faku and first paramount chief of Western Pondoland, dies. In 1869 Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse at
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Abraham Faure, clergyman and author moving spirit behind the convocation of the first DRC synod in 1824, is born in Stellenbosc
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Workers in Nigeria’s key oil industry, air traffic controllers and others launch a strike in a bid to force out the military-ba
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Explorer and navigator Vasco da Gama arrives in Lisbon after completing his voyage to India around the Cape of Good Hope.
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Three men accused of plotting to kidnap African National Congress leaders in London and then flying them to South Africa claim
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