Hamilton Naki

29 May 2005

Hamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies

29 May 1500

Bartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea

29 May 1887

Xhosa Chief Sandile is killed

29 May 1976

ESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France

29 May 1980

Fifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced

29 May 1984

SA Prime Minister,P.W. Botha visits Europe

29 May 1996

The National Party wins Western Cape local elections

29 May 1997

Education Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can’t to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking

29 May 1994

Diplomatic ties are established between SA and Saudi Arabia

29 May 1935

André Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born

29 May 2007

Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated