Archive Day

Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies

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

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

Nelson Mandela is born

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guinea-Bissau is granted independence

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

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

Security police raid offices of the United Democratic Front

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

Former Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC

Struggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island

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

Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913

The ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein

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

FNB cancels its R20 million anti-crime initiative designed to encourage President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his priority

Drum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners

The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies

Botswana accuses South Africa of kidnapping a former Soweto student leader, Peter Lengene

The longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban

South Africa abolishes financial Rand

The prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed

A fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others

Jomo Kenyatta, believed to be Mau Mau leader, is convicted

Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe

Chris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated

Paul Kruger's house in Church Street West is declared a national monument