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SACTU member Jeanette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb in Lubango, Angola.
A bomb shatters a crowded bank office in Windhoek, Namibia, killing fourteen people and injuring thirty-one.
Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. Date is given as 18 October by brainyhistory.com.
T.V. (Tom) Bulpin (81), SA author of travel books and photographer, dies in Cape Town.
Frew McMillan, doubles player with Bob Hewitt and Wimbledon tennis champion, is born in Springs.
John Harris, who was found guilty of planting a bomb in the Johannesburg station, is executed.
Tom Vraalsen, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, visits South Africa (22 November 9 December).
Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia after being ousted by his son. africanhistory.about.com/
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
Reginald Dudley Forde was born in Johannesburg on 20 April 1940. He completed his schooling at Clifton School in Nottingham Road and obtained three degrees at…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape. He was born exactly 15 years after the Soweto Youth…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a…
BiographyM. J. M. Williams Shope
M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a breadwinner for his family at an early age and received…
BiographyThe Taung Child
In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart discovered that it…
BiographyPeter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain was born on 16 February in 1950 in Nairobi Kenya but he grew up in Pretoria after his south african born parents returned home in 1951.His…
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
Isaac Zakes Nkosi, known to his fans as Bra Zakes, was born in Alexandra Township early in 1919. He started his schooling in Alexandra at a Catholic primary…
Gerrit Bon, organist and music lecturer in SA and Rhodesia, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
WW2: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to force Japan to surrender.
Petrus Nzima and Jabu Nzima, both ANC members, are killed by a car bomb in Mbabane, Swaziland.
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
Tutankhamen (also spelled Tutankhamun/Tutankhamon) was an Egyptian Pharoah who ruled in the period known as the 18th Dynasty, the years between 1332 and 1323…
A car bomb explodes in a crowded square outside Algeria’s national police headquarters, killing 10 and injuring 15.
Two people are killed in a bomb explosion in the Wild Coast Sun Casino in the Transkei.
Anthony James (Tony) Leon, leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Durban. encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
ArchiveMessage from the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) to the Workers` Summit held on 26 August 1989
Four people are killed in a pipe bomb explosion in a busy shopping centre in Worcester, Western Cape.
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, born Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah on 21 September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, in the then Gold Coast, Nzema region…
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