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… President Mandela confirms that Sol Kerzner did indeed make the contribution to the ANC electoral funds as alleged by Bantu Hlo …

… The French Minister of State for National Defence confirms the continued supply of French arms to South Africa, except …

… Biafran troops, under the command of Colonel Ojukwu, have crossed the Niger River into Nigeria’s Mid-Western State and are head …

… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country’s history, women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to pres …

… Shackleton 1718 crashes in the mountains at Steynskloof Dam near Rawsonville with total loss of life. The aircraft was on its w …

… The Security Council adopts resolution 181 calling upon all States to cease the sale and shipment of arms, ammunition and milit …

… are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the …

… 21-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, a security guard employed at the Dolphin Beach complex in Table View, is charged with the robbing …

… Douglas Fuchs (84), one of the first full-time Afrikaans broadcasters and former director general of the SABC, dies during a bo …

… Andre Maasdorp de Villiers, who disclosed information to the ANC and Natal-based weekly paper on activities of the SADF’s ‘Hamm …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … Andre Maasdorp de Villiers, who disclosed information to the ANC and Natal-based weekly paper on activities of the SADF’s ‘Hamm …

… hostel dwellers and residents continue in Soweto, with the death toll in the area rising to fifty-t …

… hostel dwellers and residents continue in Soweto, with the death toll in the area rising to fifty-t …

… Three managers of the African Bank are sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the biggest fraud case heard in South Afric …

… Three managers of the African Bank are sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the biggest fraud case heard in South Afric …

… The former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere bows out of mainstream politics when he quits as chairman of the ruling CCM party …

… Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties, …

… a suspect, who reportedly, confessed to involvement in the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi ei …

… The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into …

… An electoral alliance is announced between the United Party (UP) and the National Union (NU) in Bloemfontein, in a form of a ni …

… president F.W. de Klerk announces his decision to leave the New National Party because, joining the ANC as was decided b …

… Fidel Castro, president of Cuba since 1976 who authorised the intervention of Cuban troops in the Angolan Civil War, is born. …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … River: One of Col. Hore’s men, having sneaked through the besieger’s lines, reaches the Brit …

… Jacobus Janse (Lang Hans) van Rensburg, leader of one of the early Voortrekker treks,  is born at the Sundays River, …

… Fijian rugby players and a radio commentator are banned by the Fijian Rugby Union for travelling to South Africa. The seven …

… A number of student leaders at the University of the Western Cape and other community leaders are arrested and …

… ”Urban Native Legislation”. Memorandum to the Minister for Native Affairs from the Location Advisory Boards’ Congress of South Africa, …

… The first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, is banned again …

… The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo …

… The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va …