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SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in three matches and Justin Kemp hammers a spectacular 80 off 50 balls
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The Government sets up a quick reaction network of ninety-six police officers and twenty-nine ANC contact personnel to deal wit
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Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the "South African Society for Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union&qu
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Lt. Tommy Rose arrives in Cape Town from England after a flight that lasted three days, seventeen hours and thirty-eight minute
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General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.
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Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain nor do crayfish and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the
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Up to this date fourteen people have been killed in escalating violence in Venda sparked by allegations of ritual killings and
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Cedric Mayson, former Methodist Minister, banned for five years in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appears before the Pr
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Sen. Tommy Boydell, member of the Labour Party and ex-minister in the coalition cabinet of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, assaults J.S. M
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Three people die and at least 500 are left homeless when a tornado cuts a path of destruction through the KwaZulu-Natal Midland
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Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born
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Anton Rupert, industrial giant of South Africa and founder of the Rembrandt group, dies at the age of 89 in Stellenbosch.
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South Africa beats the West Indian Cricket team with 346 runs on Centurion Park, Pretoria, and wins thereby the series 5-0. Jac
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Mark Thatcher incurs a fine of R3-million and is given a four-year suspended prison term after pleading guilty in a Cape Town c
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Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Redvers Buller conquers Vaalkrans at the Tugela river, but shelling from both sides continues and the Br
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Vincent Baloyi, SA artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at t
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The Lusa news agency reports that torrential rains in northern Angola have damaged at least two bridges, knocked out power and
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Bosman de Ravelli (Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman), concert pianist and composer of the first Afrikaans art song in 1908, is born. H
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Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (
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David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers
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Allan Hendrickse, leader of the Labour Party, replaces Carter Ebrahim as Minister of Education and Culture in the House of Repr
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City Press reports that (White) matriculants of the Menlo Park High School held a sit-in protest and handed a petition to the p
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A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea
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Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They
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Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A
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André Stander, SA’s suave heist man and bank robber, flees to Fort Lauderdale in the US using a false passport. Allan He
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The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope
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At least 100 people drown and the town is devastated when the river at Laingsburg in the Karoo floods its banks.
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