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… Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980). …

… Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980). …

… Minister of National Education Louis Pienaar announces that the government will abolish restrictions on the number of Black stu …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: During a meeting held in the Vryheid district to elect delegates for the peace conference, Commandant-General …

… Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted. …

… Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born. …

… Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted. …

… Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born. …

… The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces that a pilot plant for the manufacture of enriched uranium has gone into production …

… providing for organisations threatening public order or the safety of the public to …

… The Hoexter Commission presents its fifth and final report to Parliament, recommending major reforms in the judicial system and …

… Eighty-six South Africans survive a Japanese attack on the HMS Cornwall near the coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). …

… The newly formed DA-IFP "coalition of change" leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Mostertshoek, near Reddersburg, takes place.  The beginning of a two-day battle between Genera …

… The United States posthumously awards SA Cheetah Squadron pilot, Lieutenant R.M. du Plooy, with the Silver Star for "galla …

… The Refugees Act, 1998, comes into action. Mozambique and Zimbabwe are by far the largest source of illegal immigrants. …

… The State Information Technology Agency (SITA), incorporated as a private company with the State as sole shareholder on 29 Janu …

… The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) is dissolved …

… Catharina Felicia van Rees, musician who published the first collection of SA folk songs, dies in Gelderland, the Netherlands. …

… Minister of National Education Louis Pienaar announces that the government will abolish restrictions on the number of Black stu …

… The ANC announces it will suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an end to violence. …

… A team of American palaeontologists announces the discovery of a 1.5 million year old skull of the shark-toothed reptile Carcha …

… SAA’s Boeing 707 "Windhoek" sets up a new record for the flight between Mauritius and Perth, covering the 3740-mile s …

… After a vote dominated by the Afrikaner Nationalist majority in the South African Parliament people of Colour (i.e. mixed …

… The mayor of Welkom in the Free State is tarred and feathered after officiating at a …

… The Smithsonian Institute, curator of the United States’ most important museum system, decides to …

… The Minister of Justice announces that the former Pan-Africanist Congress leader, Robert M. Sobukwe, …

… Brock, scientist, physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cap …

… In announcing the 1982 Defence Budget, Owen Horwood reaffirms that the government’s highest priority remains that of giving Sou …

… Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, …