The morning after. The youth who was the target of a massacre in which twelve members of his family where shot dead. Security forces were implicated in the murders then dubbed the 'AK47 massacre'. This youth was killed several months later. KwaMakhuta. KwaZulu-Natal. 1987

21 January 1987

More than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre

Rescuers dropped audio equipment in a shaft in an attempt to hear sound from trapped miners in Coalbrook mine

21 January 1960

More than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa

The reconstructed remains of Pan Am flight 103 lie in a warehouse in Farnborough, England .PETER MACDIARMID/GETTY IMAGES

21 January 1990

Nelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists

21 January 1946

Prime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act

21 January 2006

Tshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square

21 January 1931

Joseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born

21 January 2013

Nigerian terrorist, Henry Okah is found guilty of masterminding two car bombs in Abuja by a South African Judge.