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… Stompie Sepei is taken from the Methodist manse in Orlando by Jerry Richardson, former coach of the Mandela United football tea …

… Donald Woods, editor of the East London Daily Dispatch, escapes to Lesotho through the Caledon River on his way to London. …

… E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d …

… Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door …

… Foreign Minister Dr Hilgard Muller apologises to Zambia for the actions of five members of the South African police detained on …

… It is announced that Colonel Hoare, the leader of the attempted Seychelles coup, will shortly be eligible for …

… Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College, is born in Zutphen, the Netherlands. He was the first linguist to argue that Afrikaans …

… and publisher of Drum magazine, Jim Bailey, receives the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his c …

… Dr. John Godlonton on own initiative starts the Comrades Medical facility in a small tent next to the route. (Dr. Jeremy Boulte …

… Dr. John Godlonton on own initiative starts the Comrades Medical facility in a small tent next to the route. (Dr. Jeremy Boulte …

… arrested and questioned about a burglary last week from the safes of the SAPS serious an …

… Simon Hulumeni Gumede, Zulu chief and Minister of Works in the KwaZulu Government, 1983, is born in the Ubombo district, KwaZul …

… Four people, believed to be members of the ANC, are arrested in Gaborone, Botswana, and charged with the illegal possession of …

… Protests by thousands of farmers around the country against land reform legislation and loss of tax rebates, and against the go …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | Cloete, P.G. ( 2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa. … for nine Boers who were killed in Anglo-Boer War 2. The memorial includes the name of Salm …

… An earth tremor measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale strikes South Africa with its epicentre believed to be at the Hartebeesfonte …

… About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t …

… disaster, a Tanzanian ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the est …

… of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights in the constitution …

… A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in …

… Dr Victorio Carpio of the Philippines falls ill after his visit, together with Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, to the Transkei. …

… Director Zola Maseko becomes the first South African to win the top prize at Africa’s premier film festival for “Drum”, a …

… to have held talks with Mr. Jonas Savimbi, President of the National Union for the Total Independ …

… The Star. 5th March 2003. Milestones | https://www.news24.com … The World Health Organisation reports that more than 80 percent of South Africa’s people are “subjected to the most extreme for …

… In the House of Assembly, the Prime Minister criticizes Mozambique’s action of closing …

… Angered by the way President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced to flee his country, the 15-nation Caribbean Community says it w …

… US officials announce the arrests of three members of Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu rebel movement for the 1999 murders of two American …

… composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l …

… A ‘timeless’ cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th.   E …

… The Rev. Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and member of parliament for …