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ArchiveStem Nasionale Party : Vir volk en vaderland
Orange poster with blue lettering. Election poster for National Party. Photo of Henrik Verwoerd.
ArchiveVir die beskerming van ons mooi land.
Multicoloured artwork of two young boys in the outdoors and soldier in camouflage. Title in white. Words at bottom "For the protection of our beautiful country…
Nic Swanepoel, Afrikaans radio broadcaster, is born.
Sir Alfred Milner arrives in Cape Town.
EventSir de Villiers Graaff agrees with SA veto of UN visit
Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party, the official opposition, agreed with the apartheid government that the composition of the proposed United…
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller's troops relieved British forces at Ladysmith near Durban, KwaZulu Natal. The British forces had been under siege by the…
A Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain near Kokstad, Transkei, causing the first serious air-line crash i
Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
On 24 July 1862, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was born in King Williams Town. He was the eldest son of James Coleman Fitzpatrick and Jenny Fitzgerald, both of whom…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
Archibald Jacob Gumede was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana Gumede a former ANC…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
On 3 October 1844, Sir Patrick Manson was born in Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was an important physician at the time, and contributed to research…
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
On 27June 1976, Air France Flight 139, en route from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked after a stopover in Athens. The four hijackers were members of the Popular…
P.W. Botha, the Minister of Defence, announces that an air-to-air projectile has been perfected by South Africa.
Sir Gordon Sprigg forms his first ministry in the Cape at the request of the governor, Sir Bartle Frere.
ArchiveDie stryd vir ouerregte (article written in Afrikaans)
ArchiveNar vi oppnar stigarna mot en battre varld
Blue, black and white poster. Artwork of a woman with a baby on her back and a sack on her head. Flowers around the border. "Chie - 1982" in bottom left hand…
SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with Rwanda.
SA signs treaty with Italy regarding air services.
Sir Henry Connor (73), Natal chief justice, dies.
Domestic air services are deregulated in South Africa.
SA signs air services agreement with United Kingdom.
SA signs a treaty with Malawi on air transport.
SA signs agreement for air services with Japan.
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
Following an African National Congress's 20 May 1983 car bombing of headquarters of the South African Defence Force in Pretoria, ANC bases in a suburb of…
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
Adele Lorenzo, South African TV producer, was reported killed in a plane crash in Nigeria the previous night while on assignment for Africa Report. The twin…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, reporting on the reason for opposition to the sale of "instruments of violence" to the Nationalist Government…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, stating the attitude of the National Union of South African Students towards planned Republic Day celebrations…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter stating the opposition of the National Union of South African Students to the supply of arms to South Africa and giving reasons for this stance.