O. R. Tambo

28 March 1960

O. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile

28 March 1924

Natoo Babenia is born

28 March 1982

Armscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system

28 March 1994

19 die at Shell House massacre

28 March 1996

IFP commemorates Shell House shootings.

28 March 1996

Mandela reshuffles the cabinet

28 March 1979

The World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration is launched

28 March 1966

The trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town

28 March 1658

First enslaved people arrive in Cape Town