Former SA prime minister and later State President from 1978 to 1989, Pieter Willem Botha, died peacefully at the age of...
Adelaide Frances Tambo (77), widow of former African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo, died at her home in Jo...
On 12 June 1909, Natal voted in favour of the formation of the Union of South Africa. During the following year (1910), ...
For the first time in the history of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), the World Cup was stag...
On 3 June 1954, a mining engineer at the Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State pulled up a drill-core laden with ore fro...
The increasing popular resistance and violent township protests amid the 1980s forced the South African government to de...
The historic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) ...
Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in Queenstown, eastern Cape.
On 28 November 1987 more than 60 people were killed, and scores were left wounded when an army-escorted civilian convoy ...
This Day in History, African National Congress (ANC) executive member in charge of youth affairs, J.J. Hadebe replied to...
Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered to protest the army's pres...
The President's Council, mandated to consider South Africa's constitutional future, releases its final report. Central i...
The non-governmental organisation Surplus People Project (SPP) says the department of land affairs should consider using...
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence. The National Assembly, consisting of both elected m...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa was the head of State of the Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 to 4 December 1976. After e...
The first airmail ever in South Africa took place on 27 December 1911 when Evelyn Driver flew postcards from Kenilworth...
On 22 January 1879, the British Army suffered its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu soldiers overran a British ...
Former State President P.W. Botha appeared in court for refusing to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (...
At least twelve people are killed in the KwaMakhuta massacre when the home of the UDF activist Bheki Ntuli is attacked w...
South African were the host of the Africa Cup of Nations Tournament in 1996. It was the national team, Bafana Bafana’s ...
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a ...
A faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force, led by Rocky Malebana Metsing, attempts to overthrow the government of Ch...
The Alexandra '6-day war' (15-21 February) starts. Twenty-seven people are killed when SAP and SADF clash with youths af...
Prime Minister P.W. Botha and President Samora Machel of Mozambique sign the Nkomati Accord at the common border on the ...
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25 years to the day after the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, in which 69 people were killed, the South African Police op...
The passive resistance movement began on 30 March 1919 when a mass meeting of two thousand Africans in Vrededorp decided...
On 26 March 1953, close to 100 people were killed and scores of others injured at Lari in Kiambu region, Kenya, when Mau...
Gerard Moerdijk, the architect whose most famous work is the Voortreker Monument in Pretoria, died on 29 March 1958, age...
It is believed that thousands of years ago, people lived on Robben Island. After the Dutch had settled at the Cape, the ...
On 5 April 2011, South African photographer Anton Hammerl was killed, allegedly by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline....
On 13 April 2011, activist Andries Tatane was killed, by police after a service delivery protest turned ugly in Ficksbur...
On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National Congress (ANC) and the So...
On 15 April 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first...
Emsley Manne Dipico, activist, politician and former Premier of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, is born in Kim...
President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situatio...
On 14 May 1991, Winnie Nomzamo Mandela, the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannes...
A car bomb, placed outside the SAAF headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, explodes and kills twenty-one people, of wh...
The decision to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan’s Day was in celebration for what Voortrekkers viewed as a 'vic...
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