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Sir James Hulett (90), politician and sugar magnate, dies in Berea, Durban.
Sir William Owen Lanyon is sworn in as administrator of the Transvaal.
SA signs treaty with France on air pooling, concerning SAA and UTA.
Sir de Villiers Graaff (86), former leader of the United Party, dies.
Nic Swanepoel (58), SA radio broadcaster and TV newsreader, dies in Johannesburg.
Cape Governor Sir George Napier refuses to acknowledge the independence of Natalia.
Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan (64), first premier of Southern Rhodesia, dies.
Nic Mallet is appointed as SA’s sixth rugby coach in five years.
Sir Alfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Colony.
Sir Benjamin D’Urban (72), governor of the Cape, dies in Canada.
South African statesman Sir Abercrombie Smith is born at St Cyrus, Scotland.
Sir George Cathcart, British governor of the Cape, is born in London.
Sir Maximillian Michaelis, Kimberley diamond buyer and broker, is born in Germany.
Marga Diederichs (91), wife of former president Nic Diederichs, dies in Pretoria.
The governor-general of Sudan, Sir Lee Stack, is killed in Cairo.
Sir Milton Margay, the first prime minister of Sierra Leone, is born.
Libya refuses to hand over the accused in the Lockerbie air disaster.
Israeli air raid on scrap metal plant in Egypt kills seventy civilians.
Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon (54), South African born governor of Kenya, dies.
Sir Hercules Robinson arrives in Cape Town as Governor of the Cape.
EventSir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
Sir Thomas Cullinan was knighted for his discovery of the Premier Mine and his service to industry. He was one of the co-founders and a chairperson of what…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
BiographyKisten Moonsamy
Kisten “Zed” Moonsamy was part of a remarkable generation of working class activists who grew from the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) to become a formidable force…
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18…
EventSir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr
Sir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a proclamation instituting a circuit…
EventNic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.
On 2 October 1990 Nic Cruse, an employee at PC Plus, opened a parcel containing a bomb in a computer. The subsequent explosion killed Cruse, aged 23. Cruse had…
BiographyRustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu
Rustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu, also known as Parsi Rustomjee (or “Kakaji”) was born in India in August 1861. He arrived in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) at…
Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies
Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo, Natal.