Robert Sobukwe

27 February 1978

Robert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies

The battle of Majuba hill

27 February 1881

The First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba

Naas Botha

27 February 1958

Former Springboks player, Naas Botha is born

27 February 1980

First Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe

27 February 2005

Seven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park

27 February 1864

The town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded

27 February 1990

Mandela visits Zambia

27 February 1996

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma welcomes Cuban doctors