This Day in History

Minnie Dlamini, the South African television personality is born

Tumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born

AKA, the Prince of South African hip hop is born

South African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe is born

Orlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies

Die Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time

Waaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign

Tseko Simon Nkoli dies

Njabulo Ndebele was born on this day

Khoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves

Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa

Mandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Church bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.

The force of the Union of South Africa enters Windhoek, capital of South West Africa.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.

Supreme Court declares Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta winner of the Kenyan presidential election

Political activist Mvulane Zacharia Bheki dies in detention

Three AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana

Conscientious objector Ivan Toms is sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for refusing to serve in the SADF

Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe

Nigerian Political Scientist Professor Claude Ake is born

South African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies

Stander gang hits 3 banks

Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic is born

Unrests break out in the Coloured townships

18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March

Chris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated

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

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

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

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

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

South Africa abolishes financial Rand

Grammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg

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

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

The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies

Drum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners

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