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Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire’s 66-year old dictator flies to Gabon to attend a regional leaders’ meeting, denying that he was fleein
Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori
Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well
The constitution of the Orange Free State, which was largely influenced by the constitutions of the USA and the French Republic
A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif
The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit
Meshack Mogale (16), dies in police custody after being arrested at a night vigil for an unrest victim. He was allegedly kicked
Governor Bruno von Schuckmann of German South-West Africa is succeeded by Dr Theodor Zeits, who occupied the post until 1915.
Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, is released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was sentenced in
Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of negotiations under US mediation for a settlement in South West Africa by sig
The first Regional Dispute Resolution Committee was established in Natal in terms of the National Peace Accord signed on 14 Sep
South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West Africa. Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of ne
Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko is found slain at his family farm before he was to have presented a report on corruption. T
Fake versions of the new South African banknotes have hit the streets barely a week after the latest currency was released by t
South Africa beats the West Indian Cricket team with 346 runs on Centurion Park, Pretoria, and wins thereby the series 5-0. Jac
In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U
Ivory Coast’s two western rebel groups, the Movement for Justice and Peace and the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Greater West
Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (
An Avro York aircraft, en route from Johannesburg to London, lands in Nairobi, Kenya, after the machine was damaged when a swar
Bosman de Kock, broadcaster of the Afrikaans service of the BBC, London, who was appointed director of the Performing Arts Coun
Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo
Wilhelmina ten Damme, wife of Governor Hendrik Swellengrebel, dies at the age of forty. Swellendam was named in honour of them.
Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College, is born in Zutphen, the Netherlands. He was the first linguist to argue that Afrikaans
Alleged date of death of Makana by drowning while trying to escape from Robben Island, where he was imprisoned. He struggled
BiographyAshley La Grange
"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…
BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
Former Pan African Congress (PAC) director of Foreign Affairs and representative to the United Nations, David Sibeko, was murdered by a militant stance faction…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…