Map South West Africa

17 September 1919

German South West Africa is put under South African administration

17 September 1976

Documents on South Africa and Transkei’s non-aggression pact are signed

17 September 1995

Pope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa

17 September 1999

Breyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry

17 September 1983

Methane gas explosion kills 68 mine workers

17 September 1999

Mbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate

17 September 1998

Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho

17 September 1832

Slave owners in Cape Town complain against slave regulation

17 September 1987

Religious leaders hold talks with the ANC