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… The Advocate General Bill is introduced by L. Muller, … Minister of Transport, against strong opposition from the Progressive Fed …

… A committee of inquiry appointed by the Administrators of Natal and the Cape Province, declares that East Griqualand (claimed b …

… Dr. Jan Steytler, leader of the Progressive Party, launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill …

… The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) …

… Patrick Laurence, journalist from the Star, was charged with contravening the Suppression of Communism Act by publishing a stat …

… The opposition moves to impeach President Vorster for his controversial intervention. However it requires the signature of thir …

… drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast of the Cameroons. …

… The Prime Minister defends John Vorster’s statement, denying that a constitutional crisis has been created. The two major oppos …

… South Africa signs multilateral treaty embodying results of the 1960-61 Tariff Conference pertaining to the General Agreement o …

… Sir Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape, lays the foundation stone of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. …

… A notice banning the carrying of weapons in public in seventy magisterial districts is published in the Government Gazette. …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2: The Portuguese government sanctions the passage of British troops and stores via Beira, …

… The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body. …

… Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in …

… The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (now a campus of the North West University) is recognised as a univ …

… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid publishes a report recommending that the Security Council call on South Afric …

… Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre …

… van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape. …

… The Republic of Venda Constitution Amendment Act No 4, having the effect of making Venda a one-party administration (s …

… The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) begins at Gallagher Estate …

… Chief Minister Cedric Phatudi of Lebowa signs the ‘Seshego Declaration’ with the United Party Transvaal leader, Harry Schwarz a …

… as Prime Minister, forms a coalition government between the National party and the South African Party …

… Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State. …

… The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshesh at Wittebergen, near Winburg, after the first Basuto war. …

… International Workers’ Day commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. Although May Day has been …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is …

… The first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. Its …

… The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for …

… The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into …

… The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into …