This Day in History

Over 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique

Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne

Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title

The State of Emergency is declared in thirty six magisterial districts.

Former SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies

Ma Tambo dies in Johannesburg

Former South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies

UN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign

Magnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves

Soccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000

Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised

Court approves same-sex couple's right to marry

Africa Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg

Clampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins

J.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize

Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies

Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies

Benni McCarthy of Bafana Bafana is bought for nearly R40 million

The TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers

The Du Preez brothers appear before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with the murder of two soldiers

Jazz Musician, Basil ‘Manenberg’ Coetzee, dies

US President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town

UDF distances itself from Madikizela

TRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

NP demands apology from TRC

Tutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities

SA military integration is disputed

PW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC

Cyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General

Desmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson

The First Draft of the Constitution is published

Official inauguration of the Constitutional Court

King Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho

Restitution of Land Rights Act is signed

Angolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA

Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire

Malawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades

ANC dismisses proposals to postpone elections

Political violence claims 100 lives in KZN

South Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations