Archive Day

John Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto

The ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein

Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913

Molly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident

Struggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island

Former Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC

ANC becomes signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977

Security police raid offices of the United Democratic Front

Retired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto

The Khoi and San National Language Body is officially launched in Upington, Northern Cape

Guinea-Bissau is granted independence

The Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) is established. The name implies that the National Party has devia

Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road

Sir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London

The long trial of former Defence Minister, General Magnus Malan, ends.

Heart transplant pioneer Professor Chris Barnard is born in Beaufort West, CP.

Thirteen Inkatha Youth Brigade members, attending a meeting, are killed.

In the first post-independence election in Transkei, the ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) is returned to power.

Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in

Gary Bernard, photographer of The Star, commits suicide in Johannesburg

The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein grants the "Upington 14" leave to appeal against their death sentences.

The Assembly of Heads of State of OAU, meeting in Harare, adopted a declaration suggested by ANC

The South African government has released details of a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Southern Angola.

South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide

Nelson Mandela is born

Bastille Day is celebrated across the world and in Franchhoek, South Africa

The Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting

Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies

Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day

Eleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury

A car bomb, placed outside the SAAF headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, claims twenty-one lives.

Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years

President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation.

Manne Dipico, former Premier of the Northern Cape, is born in Kimberley

South Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations

Blacks in South Africa protest against segregation

The death of Andries Tatane

Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed

Anton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya

Robben Island is turned into a maximum security prison