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… The first friendly professional soccer match is played …

… Jacobus Johannes Naude (80), scout for the Boers in Transvaal, dies in Pretoria. …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Ten township youths are killed in KwaThema. The activists use booby-trap grenades. …

… Dirck Campagne, SA satirist and author, is born in Tiel, the Netherlands. …

… Violence erupts in Soweto again and the police make at least 146 arrests. …

… The Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij  …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … allegedly ANC, is abducted, escaped and shot dead the same day. …

… Parliament ends its session after 103 days and the passing of 100 bills. …

… War 2: British politician David Lloyd George denounces the concentration camp policy. …

… SA signs amendment of Article 50(A) of the Convention on International Civil Aviation. …

… Dr David Livingstone reaches the Victoria Falls and names it after his queen. …

… ---- (2004). Footballer of the decade: Bafana Bafana record. Kick Off. Special ed. … The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-3 against Germany …

… Mt. Sinai and the surrounding territory is restored to Egyptian control by …

… Boutros Boutros Ghali, secretary-general of the United Nations, is born in Egypt. …

… Maria Groesbeek (33) is hanged for the murder on her husband, Christiaan Buys. …

… Professor Ferdinand Postma, educationist and rector of the Potchefstroom University, dies in Potchefstroom. …

… Brenda Fassie, SA ‘Pop Queen’, is born in the Langa township, Cape Town. …

… A trackless trolley plunges into the Nile River drowning seventy-four, in Cairo, Egypt. …

… Die Kerkblad replaces De Maandblad of the Reformed Church in SA (Gereformeerde Kerk). …

… Badoglio government in Italy strips sovereign title from the Emperor of Ethiopia. …

… The SA rugby team scores ten tries and beats Ireland 38-0 in …

… Archbishop Desmond Tutu is appointed as chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. …

… Marthinus Theunis Steyn, former president of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein. …

… November Ntshingila, SA featherweight, wins the International Boxing Council (IBC) world champion title. …

… Hendrik Goosen, captain of the fishing boat Nerine, catches a coelacanth near East …

… The Rev. Willem Postma (46), clergyman and Bible translator, …

… Lord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape, is born in Badminton, England. …

… Closing address to the COSATU Special Congress by Willie Madisha, incoming …

… A limpet mine explodes in a Queenstown restaurant in the Eastern Cape, injuring nineteen people. …

… The air search for thirteen crew members of a Greek fish …