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… The Grosvenor of the  English East India Company runs aground in bad weather near the mouth of the Umzimvubu River.   Althou …

… The United Nations General Assembly’s Political Committee decides to grant observer status to the ANC and the PAC. The South Af …

… The Venda Independence Party (VIP) boycotts the opening of the Venda Parliament despite having won thirty-one of the …

… The SA High Commission in Botswana, in collaboration with the business community of the area, hosts the first-ever South Africa …

… The SA rugby team wins the last test against the British Isles in Newlands 5-0, the fist time ever to win a match. …

… Pakenham, T. (1991). The Scramble for Africa, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball | … Cetewayo (or Cetshwayo), last of the great Zulu kings, is captured by the British at the end of the Zulu wars. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: When W.J.C. Brebner reports the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging (surrender to the British after the Angl …

… The expedition of August F. Beutler, who left the Castle in the Cape on 29 February, reaches the Keiskamma, near …

… Two months after the start of the carnage in Rwanda, the UN Security Council approves the dispatch of 5 500 …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | (2005). Milestones, The Star , 6 January. … The cockpit voice-recorder of the SAA Helderberg, which crashed into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, is recovered from the airc …

… The SA rugby team loses the second test against the British Lions 15-18, after having lost the first one too. …

… Parliament meets in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of the Opposition, Colin Eglin. The resignation of th …

… British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the grave of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Tombs …

… The Committee of Artists of the World against Apartheid is established in Paris with the support of the Special Committee again …

… The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme …

… The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, is officially formed with the fusion of the National P …

… The Wesleyan mission station Wesleyville, on the Twecu River in the present East London district, is founded by the Rev. …

… Sudan, angered by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit to the rebel-held south, orders the British ambassador to leave the coun …

… Police announce the release of the last of the 113 detainees held under Section 10 (preventive detention) of the Internal Secur …

… Samuel Tshabalala wins the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades, the first Black person to win the race since the ban on their part …

… According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the …

… The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university …

… The State President amended the emergency regulations to allow the minister of law and order to restrict the activities of …

… The Orange Free State Vierkleur is hoisted for the first time and the coat of arms of the republic is unveiled. …

… The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea …

… The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope …

… Piet Retief completes the manifesto, which sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony.  It is publi …

… The defence minister, J.J. Fouché, announces in the House of Assembly that he intends to increase the strength of the pe …

… The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans …

… The African Union says the military in Togo has conducted a virtual coup by ignoring the constitution and appointing the son of …