Africa - Notable Historical Events
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Africa - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
180-07-17 |
6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. |
439-10-19 |
The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. |
533-09-13 |
General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa. |
1479-03-06 |
Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa. |
1560-03-07 |
Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa |
1621-06-03 |
Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa) |
1637-08-28 |
WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa |
1652-04-06 |
Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under John of Riebeeck |
1652-04-07 |
Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa |
1787-01-28 |
Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes |
1787-05-17 |
English slave ship Sisters, en route from Africa to Cuba, capsizes killing hundreds |
1795-09-16 |
British capture Capetown South Africa |
1796-08-17 |
British beat Batavian navy in Saldanha Bay South Africa |
1820-02-06 |
1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone) |
1822-02-04 |
Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa |
1824-01-21 |
Ashantis defeat British at Accra, West Africa |
1829-10-01 |
South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. |
1836-06-18 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa |
1838-12-16 |
Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa |
1841-11-25 |
35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa |
1843-08-08 |
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony |
1852-01-17 |
British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) |
1852-02-26 |
British troopship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die, 193 survive |
1854-02-17 |
Britain recognises independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) |
1858-02-13 |
Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa |
1868-03-12 |
Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho) |
1870-07-30 |
The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics |
1871-03-21 |
Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa |
1871-10-17 |
Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa |
1871-11-06 |
Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa |
1871-11-10 |
Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' |
1875-11-02 |
Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast |
1875-11-07 |
Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa |
1875-11-28 |
British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa |
1877-03-12 |
Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa. |
1877-04-12 |
British annex Transvaal, in South Africa |
1877-10-17 |
Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa |
1878-07-01 |
Treaty of Berlin divides Africa for colonization |
1878-07-17 |
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa |
1879-01-11 |
Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins |
1879-01-22 |
Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa |
1879-07-31 |
The first cable connection between South Africa and Europe is laid by the British electrical engineer Charles Tilston Bright as part of his project to link the British Empire with growing telecommunications technologies |
1879-11-28 |
Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu |
1880-12-08 |
5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa |
1880-12-16 |
Transvaal region declares itself as the Republic of South Africa |
1883-01-02 |
Battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War |
1884-08-07 |
Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) |
1884-11-15 |
Colonization of Africa orgainized at international conference in Berlin |
1885-02-12 |
Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society |
1885-02-17 |
Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa |
1886-10-30 |
Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa |
1888-09-06 |
Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons' Imperial British East Africa Company political & commercial rights |
1888-10-29 |
Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for British South Africa Company |
1888-12-19 |
Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa |
1889-03-12 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth |
1889-03-26 |
Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England |
1889-03-26 |
Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands |
1889-03-26 |
South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England |
1890-12-26 |
King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company |
1893-01-01 |
The railway line from Germiston to Pretoria, South Africa, is opened to traffic. |
1893-04-12 |
Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi |
1894-04-12 |
British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa |
1894-06-25 |
Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners) |
1894-06-28 |
The Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill, South Africa |
1894-09-14 |
Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails |
1894-11-16 |
French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa |
1895-07-08 |
Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa |
1896-01-02 |
Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops) |
1896-01-18 |
British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa |
1896-02-14 |
George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v South Africa, 8-7 for inning |
1896-02-14 |
South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever |
1896-03-02 |
George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg |
1899-03-21 |
British & French accord over West Africa |
1899-04-04 |
South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11) |
1899-09-08 |
British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa |
1899-09-17 |
1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa |
1899-10-09 |
1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa |
1899-10-09 |
South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum |
1899-10-12 |
South Africa Boer Republic declares war on Britain |
1899-10-13 |
7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal |
1899-10-14 |
Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa |
1899-10-22 |
British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa |
1899-10-24 |
Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army |
1899-12-10 |
-15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa |
1899-12-10 |
Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army |
1899-12-15 |
Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) |
1899-12-18 |
Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa |
1899-12-23 |
British Field Marshall Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa for the 2nd Boer War |
1900-01-21 |
The second contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax to fight in South Africa against the Boers |
1900-01-24 |
Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-06 |
The Battle of Vaal Krantz, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-15 |
British troops relieve Kimberly, South Africa, a city under siege by the Boers since October 1899, during the Boer War. |
1900-02-22 |
Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-23 |
Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-27 |
Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa |
1900-03-07 |
Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees |
1900-03-10 |
Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-03-17 |
In South Africa, British troops relieve Mafeking, besieged by the Boers since 13 October, 1899. |
1900-03-27 |
Recognising that the war in South Africa is going to take a major commitment, Parliament passes the War Loan Act, calling for £35 million to support the fight against the Boers. |
1900-05-26 |
British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa |
1900-05-27 |
Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa |
1900-05-28 |
Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, flees its capital, Pretoria, and goes to Watervalboven to evade the advancing British. |
1900-06-01 |
British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa |
1900-06-05 |
Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller |
1900-06-23 |
British Governor Frederick Hodgson and some of his British supporters flee Fort Coomassie, Gold Coast, Africa, where they have been under siege since 6 April |
1900-08-30 |
Last 2,000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt, South Africa, freed |
1900-09-03 |
With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa |
1900-09-06 |
British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa |
1900-09-15 |
A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa |
1900-10-04 |
In a final confrontation, some 4000 rebellious Ashantis are defeated by the British, Ashanti, Gold Coast, Africa |
1900-11-22 |
Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France |
1900-11-29 |
General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts |
1901-02-27 |
A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers |
1901-11-26 |
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa |
1902-01-10 |
Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa |
1902-04-11 |
Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa |
1902-05-06 |
Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa |
1902-10-10 |
South Africa's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht |
1902-10-11 |
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia |
1903-02-03 |
Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa |
1903-12-29 |
French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari |
1904-01-11 |
Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising |
1904-01-12 |
Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison |
1904-04-08 |
Great Britain and France establish their Entente Cordiale, a technical treaty settling long-standing disagreements over Morocco, Egypt, Africa, and the Pacific |
1904-04-13 |
Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army |
1904-06-11 |
German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa |
1904-06-22 |
Chinese laborers arrive in South Africa following a severe labor shortage |
1904-08-11 |
German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa |
1904-11-28 |
Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa |
1904-12-24 |
German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children |
1905-01-26 |
World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa |
1905-04-25 |
Whites win right to vote in South Africa |
1905-07-31 |
Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa |
1905-08-14 |
Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa |
1905-08-16 |
Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa |
1905-08-30 |
Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa |
1905-08-31 |
Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa |
1905-09-23 |
Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken |
1906-01-01 |
The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, South Africa, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by the Natal parliament in 1905, becomes payable. |
1906-01-04 |
South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win |
1906-04-02 |
South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England |
1906-09-11 |
Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa. |
1907-02-26 |
Louis Botha Het Volk Party wins a majority in the election in Transvaal, South Africa |
1907-05-16 |
In the Pact of Cartagena, Great Britain, France, and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa |
1909-06-15 |
Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference. |
1909-09-02 |
King Edward VII signs South Africa Act |
1909-09-20 |
The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages |
1910-02-26 |
Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa |
1910-05-31 |
Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa |
1910-05-31 |
Union of South Africa declares independence from UK |
1910-07-01 |
Union of South Africa becomes a dominion |
1910-09-15 |
Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa |
1910-11-04 |
Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained |
1911-01-03 |
The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal, Southern Africa, is prohibited with effect from 1 July |
1911-01-10 |
Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214 |
1911-01-13 |
Roald Amundsen anchors at Walvis Bay, southwestern Africa |
1911-01-13 |
South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide |
1911-03-13 |
The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax |
1911-06-22 |
King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea. |
1911-11-05 |
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica |
1912-02-08 |
British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength |
1912-05-28 |
Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Aust v South Africa |
1912-10-02 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm |
1913-01-02 |
Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa. |
1913-06-19 |
Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves |
1913-07-03 |
Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) |
1913-07-25 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
1913-09-22 |
The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1913-09-23 |
Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices |
1913-11-06 |
Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa |
1913-12-30 |
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103) |
1914-01-20 |
The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment |
1914-01-27 |
A petition is written and submitted by the black and coloured women of the Orange Free State, an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa, against the carrying of passes by women |
1914-06-30 |
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa |
1914-07-18 |
Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance |
1914-08-03 |
French fleet sails to North Africa |
1914-08-15 |
The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads |
1914-09-18 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
1914-09-22 |
Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to aiding British in the war against Germany |
1914-10-13 |
Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa |
1915-06-21 |
Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law |
1915-07-09 |
Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa |
1915-07-10 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
1916-05-06 |
Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa |
1916-09-19 |
Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa |
1919-01-07 |
The Industrial and Commercial Workers` Union of South Africa is founded, led by Clements Kadalie |
1919-05-06 |
Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa |
1919-08-28 |
General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa |
1920-02-04 |
1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (lasts 1½ months) |
1920-03-20 |
1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months) |
1920-07-23 |
British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony |
1920-08-02 |
Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC |
1920-10-23 |
African demonstrators shot in Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1920-12-17 |
South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa |
1921-03-05 |
The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or occupation of property in white areas, South Africa |
1921-06-20 |
At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, the Indian representative, puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies; the South African Prime Minister, General J.C. Smuts, opposes Sastris resolution, claiming that he cannot grant the franchise to Indians while withholding it from Blacks |
1921-07-30 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground |
1921-11-21 |
The trial of the accused of the Bulhoek Massacre commences in South Africa |
1921-12-16 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaan's Day |
1921-12-28 |
The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
1922-01-01 |
Coal miners in the Transvaal, South Africa, embark on a strike in response to a wage cut, which quickly escalated into a large-scale revolt against the government, known as the Rand Rebellion. |
1922-03-10 |
State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa |
1922-03-22 |
The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa is brought to a brutal end by the police; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
1923-05-31 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
1923-09-12 |
Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1924-01-27 |
The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Association jointly organise a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the Class Areas Bill |
1924-04-01 |
Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1924-06-14 |
Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa |
1924-06-16 |
South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 |
1924-06-28 |
Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's |
1924-06-30 |
England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's |
1924-10-28 |
M.de Bruin, a quarry man and miner, discovers an infant fossil skull in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Popularly known as the Taung child, Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species called Australopithecus africanus (The Southern Africa Ape). |
1925-05-05 |
Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa. |
1926-07-18 |
The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel |
1926-08-22 |
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1930-05-19 |
White women win voting rights in South Africa |
1931-09-30 |
Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa. |
1931-11-17 |
Bradman scores 135 NSW v South Africa, 128 mins, 15 fours |
1931-11-28 |
Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa |
1931-12-07 |
Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours |
1931-12-11 |
Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd |
1931-12-19 |
Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG |
1932-01-04 |
Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG |
1932-01-29 |
Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide |
1932-01-30 |
Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval |
1932-02-01 |
Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th |
1932-02-02 |
Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83) |
1932-02-14 |
South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6) |
1932-02-15 |
Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time |
1934-06-30 |
French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit |
1935-12-14 |
Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban |
1936-01-04 |
Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa |
1936-03-03 |
Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa |
1938-06-08 |
Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa |
1938-07-01 |
The South African Press Association (SAPA) is established as a non-governmental institution by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international |
1938-08-08 |
Great Trek Centenary Celebrations commence; the Great Trek was a migration involving Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa |
1938-12-23 |
Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. |
1938-12-26 |
Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa |
1938-12-28 |
Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa |
1939-03-14 |
England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day |
1939-07-09 |
A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa |
1939-09-03 |
WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada |
1939-09-06 |
South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany |
1940-06-22 |
About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII |
1940-12-07 |
North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor |
1940-12-09 |
British assault on Banghazi Libya: 1st major offensive in North Africa |
1941-03-30 |
German counter offensive in North-Africa |
1941-04-06 |
British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa |
1941-04-07 |
British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa |
1941-11-18 |
British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa |
1941-11-26 |
General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa |
1941-12-15 |
North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
1941-12-17 |
German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
1942-01-05 |
55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
1942-01-23 |
Tank battle at Adzjedabia, Africa Korp vs British 8th army |
1942-03-26 |
German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel |
1942-06-05 |
British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie |
1942-06-11 |
German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
1942-06-20 |
German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
1942-06-21 |
Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
1942-06-24 |
Africa Korps invades Egypt |
1942-08-10 |
Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa |
1942-08-14 |
Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa |
1942-10-25 |
Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa |
1942-11-08 |
1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) |
1942-11-08 |
Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa |
1942-11-22 |
Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to last man |
1942-12-10 |
North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
1943-01-03 |
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
1943-02-10 |
British 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
1943-02-16 |
Withdrawing Afrika Korps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa |
1943-03-06 |
Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack |
1943-04-06 |
British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II |
1943-04-12 |
Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa |
1943-04-28 |
German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
1943-05-12 |
Axis forces in North Africa surrender |
1943-05-12 |
German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
1943-05-13 |
German & Italian forces in Africa surrender |
1943-05-26 |
Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa |
1944-01-01 |
Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
1945-01-25 |
West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma |
1946-06-23 |
In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters |
1947-06-23 |
Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa |
1948-05-26 |
South Africa elects a nationalist government under D.F. Malan with an apartheid policy |
1949-01-14 |
Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die |
1949-03-09 |
England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes |
1949-06-29 |
South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages |
1949-07-08 |
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa |
1950-04-27 |
South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races |
1950-05-02 |
Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China People's Republic |
1950-06-27 |
South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea |
1950-07-17 |
Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa |
1951-05-31 |
Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord |
1951-06-18 |
In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences. |
1952-03-24 |
Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa |
1952-06-26 |
Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew |
1953-07-15 |
ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names |
1954-08-01 |
In South Africa, The Natives Resettlement Act empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg; less than a year after the Act was passed Sophiatown residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands in Soweto |
1954-11-30 |
John Strydom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa |
1955-06-09 |
Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa at Trent Bridge |
1955-06-26 |
Freedom Charter signed in South Africa |
1955-11-09 |
UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics |
1956-07-10 |
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, South Africa, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC |
1956-08-17 |
One of the largest demonstrations in South Africa's history, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings to present petition against carrying of passes by women to the Prime Minister |
1956-12-06 |
Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Africa |
1957-05-22 |
South Africa government approves race separation in universities |
1957-12-23 |
Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson v South Africa |
1958-01-03 |
Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town |
1958-03-14 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
1958-09-02 |
Hendrik Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa |
1959-06-16 |
In South Africa, Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, is met with violent resistance. |
1959-07-17 |
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers the partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) that lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago |
1959-08-12 |
Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
1959-11-17 |
De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond |
1960-01-21 |
Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook, South Africa; 417 die of methane poisoning |
1960-03-21 |
Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC |
1960-06-06 |
South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
1960-06-24 |
Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's |
1960-06-25 |
South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg |
1960-07-21 |
Country of Katanga forms in Africa |
1960-08-08 |
Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa are dropped |
1961-03-15 |
South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth |
1961-03-17 |
South Africa leaves British Commonwealth |
1961-04-13 |
UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid |
1961-05-04 |
South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested |
1961-05-31 |
Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth |
1961-06-27 |
Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa |
1961-06-29 |
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government |
1961-08-24 |
Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice |
1961-12-08 |
South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock |
1962-06-15 |
South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
1962-06-27 |
In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders |
1962-08-05 |
Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Africa |
1962-11-06 |
UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa |
1963-04-20 |
-30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda |
1963-06-25 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
1963-06-30 |
International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies |
1963-07-13 |
Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft |
1963-07-18 |
The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum |
1963-08-11 |
Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa |
1963-10-20 |
South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy |
1963-12-12 |
Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK |
1964-06-12 |
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa |
1964-06-24 |
In South Africa, the 90-Days Act commences, providing for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days; further, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days |
1964-08-18 |
South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies |
1964-10-04 |
3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81 |
1964-11-17 |
British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa |
1965-01-06 |
Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
1965-04-01 |
South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
1965-06-15 |
South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products |
1965-07-03 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
1965-12-01 |
South Africa government says children of white fathers are white |
1966-03-17 |
South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund |
1966-05-01 |
Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting |
1966-07-16 |
Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts |
1966-07-16 |
Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community |
1966-09-13 |
Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
1966-10-27 |
UN deprives South Africa of Namibia |
1967-05-23 |
Government bans submarines near South Africa |
1967-12-03 |
1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa) |
1968-07-29 |
Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa |
1969-06-30 |
In South Africa, General Laws Amendment Bill is passed; the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence |
1970-01-01 |
The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as the University of Zululand. |
1970-01-22 |
Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town |
1970-02-05 |
Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban |
1970-03-10 |
South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia |
1970-05-15 |
South-Africa excluded from Olympic play |
1970-08-13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1970-08-19 |
The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status |
1971-03-03 |
Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
1971-03-31 |
South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion |
1971-06-21 |
Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia |
1971-06-22 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
1972-06-01 |
Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
1972-07-12 |
Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1972-09-30 |
Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) |
1973-11-23 |
Arab summit conference adopts open and secret resolutions on the use of the oil weapons; embargo extended to Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa |
1974-01-01 |
With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa. |
1974-06-01 |
Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia |
1974-07-07 |
New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa |
1974-11-07 |
63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) |
1974-11-12 |
South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies |
1975-10-23 |
Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola |
1976-06-11 |
Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa |
1976-06-16 |
Students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. |
1976-06-24 |
A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools |
1976-06-25 |
The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting |
1976-06-27 |
In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness |
1976-08-11 |
Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
1976-08-13 |
South Africa pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia |
1976-09-23 |
South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them |
1976-10-26 |
Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa |
1976-11-09 |
UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa |
1976-12-28 |
Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa |
1977-04-27 |
Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa |
1977-06-10 |
International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression. |
1977-06-23 |
Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests |
1977-06-28 |
The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties |
1977-06-29 |
South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP) |
1977-07-26 |
The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa |
1977-08-10 |
About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa |
1977-09-14 |
Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa |
1977-10-21 |
US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa |
1977-11-04 |
UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa |
1977-12-06 |
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
1977-12-31 |
Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa |
1978-01-01 |
Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime |
1978-05-06 |
South Africa military goes into Angola |
1978-07-24 |
Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe |
1978-09-28 |
Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa |
1979-09-13 |
South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) |
1980-02-03 |
Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy |
1980-05-02 |
Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa |
1980-06-01 |
ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa |
1980-06-13 |
UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela |
1980-06-18 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa |
1980-08-22 |
Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes |
1981-06-19 |
Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa |
1981-06-30 |
Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained |
1981-07-25 |
Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa's Springboks by invading the pitch during the game. |
1981-07-29 |
Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa's Consul, New Zealand. |
1981-11-30 |
South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested |
1981-12-04 |
According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa |
1982-03-20 |
Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa |
1982-07-02 |
In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication |
1982-08-06 |
Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa |
1983-07-13 |
The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa |
1983-08-06 |
Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa |
1983-08-06 |
Bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of ANC, explodes at a synagogue in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1983-09-27 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years |
1984-02-27 |
Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa |
1984-03-16 |
South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty |
1984-07-12 |
A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people |
1984-07-13 |
The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa |
1984-08-22 |
The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament |
1984-09-03 |
South Africa adopts constitution |
1984-09-26 |
President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
1985-01-28 |
Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars) |
1985-03-21 |
Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed |
1985-04-30 |
Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa |
1985-05-18 |
1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa) |
1985-07-09 |
South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong |
1985-08-15 |
PW Botha gives the "Rubicon" Speech in Durban, South Africa, dissapointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system |
1985-08-19 |
Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha's invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the role and actions of the police and security forces in South Africa |
1985-09-09 |
President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
1985-12-01 |
South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms |
1986-03-07 |
South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends |
1986-03-24 |
58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa", William Hurt & G Page win |
1986-05-23 |
US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa |
1986-06-10 |
In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it. |
1986-06-16 |
1 day general strike in South Africa |
1986-06-18 |
US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa |
1986-06-28 |
West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa |
1986-07-13 |
Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa |
1986-08-27 |
Protest erupt in Soweto, South Africa, demonstrating against evictions which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott |
1986-09-16 |
Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed |
1986-10-20 |
Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa |
1986-10-21 |
IBM re-forms in South Africa |
1986-10-25 |
International Red Cross ousted from South Africa |
1986-12-11 |
South Africa censors press |
1987-06-27 |
In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed |
1987-07-30 |
An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command in Johannesburg South Africa kills 1 person and injures 68 |
1987-08-09 |
The National Union of Mineworkers begin South Africa's longest wage strike |
1987-08-31 |
South Africa longest mine strike in history ends |
1987-09-07 |
South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young |
1987-11-05 |
South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed |
1988-07-02 |
Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonate a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1988-07-07 |
Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act |
1988-07-28 |
Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa, destroyed by arson |
1988-08-07 |
Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty |
1988-08-08 |
Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
1988-08-08 |
South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
1988-08-31 |
Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches |
1988-12-22 |
South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa |
1989-02-02 |
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
1989-05-17 |
Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa |
1989-06-29 |
The National Party adopts a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government spheres; the African National Congress (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system |
1989-07-16 |
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid |
1989-08-14 |
President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns |
1989-08-15 |
Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
1989-09-13 |
Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa |
1989-09-20 |
FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa |
1989-10-15 |
South Africa President FW de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners |
1989-11-16 |
South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act |
1989-12-18 |
Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in NYC |
1990-01-18 |
South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress |
1990-02-02 |
South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs |
1990-02-11 |
Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa |
1990-02-13 |
50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa |
1990-03-21 |
Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president |
1990-05-02 |
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
1990-05-06 |
Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party |
1990-06-07 |
South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency |
1990-06-22 |
Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach |
1990-07-12 |
In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes |
1990-07-16 |
The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa |
1990-07-23 |
South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1990-07-29 |
South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference |
1990-08-15 |
At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa |
1990-09-13 |
Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die |
1991-01-13 |
42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1991-01-13 |
Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die |
1991-06-17 |
South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws |
1991-06-23 |
A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa |
1991-06-25 |
Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa |
1991-06-25 |
Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa |
1991-06-28 |
South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
1991-06-30 |
South Africa Government repeal the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act) |
1991-07-09 |
South Africa readmitted to Olympics |
1991-07-10 |
Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa |
1991-08-04 |
The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. |
1991-11-10 |
South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day v India |
1992-01-11 |
Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa |
1992-03-22 |
England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final |
1992-04-18 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown) |
1992-06-17 |
Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42 |
1992-06-19 |
Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa |
1992-07-03 |
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa has its FIFA membership reinstated |
1992-07-07 |
South Africa's national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win South Africa's first ever FIFA sanctioned match |
1992-07-15 |
The Security Council of the UN examine violence in South Africa |
1992-12-04 |
Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. |
1993-03-21 |
South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl |
1993-05-07 |
South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections |
1993-05-13 |
Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50 |
1993-08-16 |
South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay |
1993-09-02 |
Day of Peace in South Africa |
1993-10-08 |
UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa |
1993-10-15 |
Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1993-11-18 |
Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution |
1994-01-03 |
Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994 |
1994-01-07 |
South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs |
1994-01-25 |
Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
1994-03-05 |
Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) |
1994-03-07 |
ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa |
1994-03-18 |
South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
1994-03-20 |
Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa |
1994-04-26 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote |
1994-04-28 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] |
1994-05-06 |
Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election |
1994-05-10 |
Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president |
1994-05-11 |
6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa |
1994-06-23 |
South Africa reclaims its seat in UN |
1994-06-23 |
South Africa is readmitted to the United Nations Organisations (UNO) |
1994-10-06 |
Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa |
1995-05-10 |
In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident |
1995-06-24 |
South Africa's Springboks beat New Zealand's All Blacks 15-12 to win the Rugby Wold Cup in Johannesburg |
1995-07-09 |
Former South Africa President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation |
1995-08-09 |
South Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day |
1995-10-16 |
Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe |
1995-12-03 |
Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v South Africa, a record |
1996-02-16 |
Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa v UAE at Rawalpindi |
1996-04-19 |
South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah |
1996-05-08 |
South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution |
1996-06-23 |
Archbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in South Africa |
1996-07-07 |
Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa |
1996-11-19 |
Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire. |
1997-02-24 |
South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp |
1997-08-16 |
The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa |
1998-07-14 |
Violence erupts in Richmond, South Africa, reflecting underlying political tensions between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party |
1998-08-11 |
Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela |
1998-08-14 |
Winnie Mandela sued by the South Africa government |
1998-08-21 |
P.W. Botha found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
1998-10-29 |
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. |
1999-06-16 |
Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa |
1999-06-22 |
Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu causes a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, "It is acceptable for politicians to lie", South Africa |
2000-06-23 |
The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of South Africa, soiling more than 19 000 penguins; this resulted in the world's largest ever rescue of birds from an oiling event |
2000-07-09 |
Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe |
2002-06-28 |
In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council |
2002-07-09 |
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. |
2002-08-16 |
Africa Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg |
2002-08-26 |
Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
2005-07-07 |
Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010. |
2006-01-16 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
2008-08-15 |
Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa |
2008-09-21 |
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns from office, effective September 25. |
2009-05-27 |
South Africa enters the global recession; the first recession for South Africa in 17 years |
2010-07-02 |
Ghana's Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, are defeated by Uruguay |
2010-07-11 |
Spain beats Netherlands 1-0 for soccer's 19th World Cup in South Africa (1st title) |
2012-02-12 |
Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations |
2012-07-13 |
19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa |
2012-08-20 |
South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England |
2012-09-10 |
10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa |
2012-10-05 |
Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa |
2013-01-31 |
300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa |
2013-02-10 |
Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations |
2013-03-15 |
24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa |
2015-12-04 |
China pledges $60 billion in funding support to Africa |
2017-04-04 |
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's drops South Africa to junk |
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Africa - Notable Birthdays
Africa - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
354-11-13 |
[Christian] Aurelius Augustine, bp of Hippo in Roman Africa |
1304-02-24 |
Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa) |
1771-09-20 |
Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa) |
1813-03-19 |
David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa) |
1813-07-26 |
Isaac Baumann, Kassel Hesse, Germany, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa |
1819-09-17 |
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa) |
1821-02-16 |
Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa) |
1824-12-19 |
Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97) |
1831-01-20 |
Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa) |
1841-01-28 |
Henry Morton Stanley, Denbigh Wales, journalist and African explorer (found Livingstone in Africa) (d.1904) |
1846-09-13 |
Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa) |
1847-10-09 |
Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond) |
1852-01-26 |
Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa) |
1853-07-05 |
Cecil John Rhodes, South Africa, politician/diamond merchant |
1853-09-04 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German Africa explorer/governor East-Africa |
1856-07-15 |
Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test captain) |
1859-05-01 |
Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat |
1860-01-08 |
Nancy Jones, US black missionary in Africa |
1862-02-10 |
W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889) |
1862-09-27 |
Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19) |
1865-10-19 |
Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1892, 18 & 3) |
1865-11-01 |
Monty Bowden, cricketer (England Test capt v South Africa at 23) |
1868-04-05 |
J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892) |
1870-03-20 |
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician (East Africa) |
1870-05-24 |
Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and proponent of Commonwealth & League of Nations (d. 1950) |
1870-12-21 |
Sir Patrick Duncan, Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943) |
1874-04-14 |
Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada) |
1874-04-26 |
J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v Australia 1902) |
1874-05-22 |
Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54) |
1874-11-07 |
Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96) |
1876-06-04 |
Robert Dower, cricketer (1 Test South Africa v England 1898, scored 0 & 9) |
1881-08-07 |
Jean Darlan, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1883-01-07 |
Andrew Cunningham, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1883-10-29 |
William K. Wells, The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa |
1883-11-17 |
Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1913) |
1884-06-21 |
Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa |
1885-03-16 |
Sydney Chaplin, South Africa, actor (Limelight) |
1885-04-17 |
Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales) |
1885-04-17 |
Karen Blixen-Finecke, [pen name Isak Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa) |
1885-04-17 |
Karen Blixen, Out of Africa |
1886-08-13 |
Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter |
1887-08-17 |
Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks |
1888-03-17 |
Frank Buck, actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs) |
1889-09-03 |
Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn) |
1890-08-29 |
Charles Van Enger, Africa Screams |
1891-02-12 |
Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner (1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair) |
1891-03-14 |
John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa) |
1891-12-25 |
Kenneth A N Anderson, British general (Dunkerk, North Africa) |
1892-01-03 |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) |
1892-06-13 |
Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes) |
1892-07-22 |
John MacBryan, cricketer (one Test Eng v South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl) |
1893-07-14 |
John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58) |
1893-11-23 |
Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa) |
1893-12-31 |
J M Blankenberg, cricketer (60 wkts in 18 Tests for South Africa) |
1894-08-22 |
Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights) |
1894-12-05 |
Charles Robberts, Winburg district of the Orange Free State, The first State President of South Africa |
1895-02-03 |
Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52) |
1895-10-02 |
Bud Abbott, Africa Screams |
1897-05-10 |
Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1923) |
1897-12-16 |
Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer (three Tests for South Africa 1927-29) |
1898-10-21 |
Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/gov-gen of Ital East-Africa |
1899-09-29 |
Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter |
1899-12-06 |
Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith |
1900-06-13 |
Ian Hunter, Capetown South Africa, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn) |
1900-08-28 |
Wynant D. Hubbard, Adventures in Africa No. 11: Beasts of the Wilderness |
1901-09-08 |
Hendrik F Verwoerd, premier South Africa (1958-66) (assassinated) |
1903-01-11 |
Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country) |
1903-12-10 |
William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa) |
1904-12-12 |
Jim Christy, righty cricket batter (Transvaal, Queensland & South Africa) |
1905-03-27 |
John Fleming (Jack) Brock, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, one of South Africa's most distinguished nutritional scientists and medical educators |
1905-12-13 |
Frank Gross, Africa Screams |
1906-01-06 |
Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary) |
1906-02-27 |
H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet) |
1906-03-06 |
Lou Costello, Africa Screams |
1906-12-02 |
Eric Dalton, cricketer (2 centuries in 15 Tests for South Africa 1929-39) |
1907-08-12 |
Joe Besser, Africa Screams |
1907-11-07 |
Thor L. Brooks, Kwaheri: Vanishing Africa |
1909-02-11 |
Max Baer, Africa Screams |
1909-03-19 |
Louis Hayward, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors) |
1909-04-05 |
Gerald Bond, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1938, 0 & 0-16) |
1909-08-02 |
Lord Benson [Henry Alexander], Johannesburg South Africa, British accountant (Coopers & Lybrand) |
1909-08-26 |
Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler (5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39) |
1910-11-26 |
Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal) |
1911-02-06 |
A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's) |
1911-04-07 |
Edward Nassour, Africa Screams |
1912-03-23 |
Maner Lualdi, Una lettera dall'Africa |
1912-07-06 |
Giovanni Roccardi, Africa sotto i mari |
1914-01-20 |
Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike) |
1914-02-20 |
John Daly, South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line) |
1914-05-02 |
Dennis Dyer, cricketer (opened batting for South Africa v England 1947) |
1914-08-07 |
Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond) |
1915-01-27 |
Jack Brymer, Out of Africa |
1915-04-23 |
James Fleming, Africa |
1915-06-11 |
Buddy Baer, Africa Screams |
1915-12-13 |
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77) |
1916-01-12 |
A P[ieter] W Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa |
1917-01-01 |
Kenneth Mason, Out of Africa |
1917-05-21 |
Rudolf Klicks, The Riders of German East Africa |
1917-9-05 |
Virginia Ruark, Africa Adventure |
1918-04-07 |
Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style) |
1918-07-18 |
Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993) |
1919-02-06 |
Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49) |
1919-03-21 |
Peter Handford, Out of Africa |
1921-03-06 |
Denny Densham, Man of Africa |
1921-04-10 |
Chuck Connors, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa) |
1922-07-03 |
Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo], Dutch painter (Africa, Antilles) |
1922-11-30 |
Graham Crowden, Out of Africa |
1922-9-08 |
Annabel Maule, Out of Africa |
1922-9-11 |
Arthur Hecht, Africa Screams |
1923-10-05 |
Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins) |
1923-12-05 |
Johnny Pate, Shaft in Africa |
1923-12-20 |
Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist |
1924-05-31 |
Russell Endean, cricketer (28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956) |
1924-09-28 |
Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet |
1924-10-15 |
Nigel Green, South Africa, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File) |
1925-02-20 |
Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night) |
1925-03-23 |
David Watkin, Out of Africa |
1925-08-15 |
Gertrude Shope, Johannesburg, South Africa, leader of the ANC Women's League |
1925-10-14 |
Phillip Tobias, Durban, Natal, South Africa, palaeoanthropologist and 3 x Nobel Prize nominee(hominid fossil sites), (d. 2012) |
1926-02-20 |
Edgar Meuli, cricketer (opened NZ batting in Test v South Africa 1953) |
1926-03-09 |
Gerrit A Kooy, Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa) |
1926-12-05 |
Lewis Nkosi, Come Back, Africa |
1927-04-18 |
Stephen B. Grimes, Out of Africa |
1927-05-05 |
Sid O'Linn, cricketer (soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960) |
1927-07-22 |
George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948) |
1927-10-25 |
Hedley Keith, cricketer (solid left-handed for South Africa in the 1950's) |
1928-01-20 |
Rudy Boesch, Countdown to Africa |
1928-02-25 |
Edward Magruder Jones, Africa |
1928-06-30 |
Stanis Nievo, Mal d'Africa |
1928-07-20 |
Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012) |
1928-10-25 |
Peter Whitbread, Heritage Africa |
1928-11-12 |
Robert Holness, Natal, South Africa, English radio and television presenter (BBC), (d. 2012) |
1929-01-23 |
Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65) |
1929-03-24 |
Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball) |
1929-05-21 |
Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955) |
1929-05-26 |
Jacob Ade-Ajayi, Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday |
1929-10-06 |
Burt Wenland, Africa Screams |
1930-04-15 |
Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU) |
1930-06-07 |
Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v South Africa 1953-54 without distinction) |
1931-01-10 |
Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, South Africa vicar/MP |
1931-04-19 |
Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee, South Africa minister of Defense/Justice |
1931-07-26 |
John Africa, |
1932-01-13 |
Louis Portugais, Freedom Africa |
1932-03-04 |
Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) |
1932-03-18 |
F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk, president South Africa (1989-94) |
1932-06-11 |
Athol Fugard, Middleburg South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot) |
1932-9-19 |
Stefanie Zweig, Nowhere in Africa |
1933-01-19 |
Nick Zaran, Shaft in Africa |
1933-08-14 |
Bryce Courtenay, Johannesburg, South Africa, Australian novelist (The Power of One), (d. 2012) |
1933-08-28 |
Tristram Jellinek, Out of Africa |
1934-05-20 |
Charles Moskos, Chemical Plant Insecurity/They Didn't Ask, He Didn't Tell/The Kuwait of Africa |
1934-10-03 |
Harold Ralph Henning, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1966 Texas Open) |
1935-08-05 |
Zakes Mokae, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Comedians) |
1935-10-09 |
Paul Barton, cricketer (NZ batsman in early 1960's, century v South Africa) |
1936-02-25 |
Frank Fenter, Africa Shakes |
1937-05-25 |
John Percival, Africa |
1938-07-18 |
Dudu Pukwana, Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa |
1938-11-24 |
Wynne Bradburn, cricketer (father of Grant NZ batsman v South Africa 1964) |
1939-03-04 |
Carel Trichardt, Flatfoot in Africa |
1939-04-04 |
Hugh Masekela, Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid) |
1939-04-09 |
Gernot Roll, Nowhere in Africa |
1939-06-26 |
Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, South Africa, sec-gen (Bishops' Conference 1983-88) |
1939-9-28 |
Kurt Luedtke, Out of Africa |
1939-9-29 |
Werner Pochath, Flatfoot in Africa |
1940-02-06 |
Hildegard Schmahl, Nowhere in Africa |
1940-06-23 |
Simon Hobday, Mareking South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Senior Open) |
1940-10-21 |
Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn) |
1940-9-21 |
Gerd Heinz, Nowhere in Africa |
1941-08-17 |
Ibrahim Babangida, Children of Africa |
1942-02-12 |
Ehud Barak, Iron Dome/Africa Mercy/Dame Maggie |
1942-02-26 |
Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa) |
1942-06-18 |
Thabo Mbeki, Idutywa, Transkei, South Africa, former President of South Africa |
1943-01-25 |
Ian Collier, Heritage Africa |
1943-01-29 |
Tim Souster, Heritage Africa |
1943-06-01 |
Kuki Gallmann, I Dreamed of Africa |
1943-06-22 |
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Out of Africa |
1943-11-09 |
John Shepherd, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa) |
1943-9-18 |
Sharon Tandy, Africa Shakes |
1944-01-13 |
Isabel Mulá, King of Africa |
1944-06-22 |
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austria, actor (Mephisto, Out of Africa) |
1944-08-19 |
Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education |
1944-10-19 |
Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa) |
1944-9-18 |
Kim Johnson, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1945-05-05 |
Laurie Kay, Africa Express |
1945-06-27 |
Omar Badsha, Durban, South Africa, South African photographer, trade unionist and political activist |
1945-07-21 |
Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman (4 Tests for South Africa) |
1946-01-24 |
John Harrison, South Africa correspondent (BBC) |
1946-07-29 |
Diane Keen, Nowhere in Africa |
1946-10-06 |
Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer (English all-rounder 1972-77), (d. 2012) |
1946-10-23 |
Louise Brooks, Voices of Witness Africa |
1947-01-01 |
Jon Corzine, Chemical Plant Insecurity/They Didn't Ask, He Didn't Tell/The Kuwait of Africa |
1947-03-10 |
Tom Scholz, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
1947-05-17 |
John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93) |
1947-06-05 |
Eric Molobi, South Africa, activist (ANC) |
1947-06-22 |
Jerry J. Rawlings, Children of Africa |
1947-07-05 |
Rodger Bingham, Countdown to Africa |
1947-12-30 |
Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader (South Africa Democratic Party) |
1948-10-31 |
Michael Kitchen, Out of Africa |
1948-12-27 |
Meja Mwangi, Out of Africa |
1949-07-14 |
Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS) |
1949-08-08 |
Benny Young, Out of Africa |
1949-08-12 |
Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director |
1950-05-06 |
Samuel K. Doe, The Word Universe: A Journey to West Africa |
1950-09-17 |
Lawrence Anthony, Johannesberg, South Africa, conservationist and author, (d. 2012) |
1951-05-15 |
Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa), (d. 2014) |
1951-10-12 |
Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore) |
1952-01-23 |
Omar Henry, cricketer (1st colored player for South Africa 1992) |
1952-04-26 |
Popo Simon Molefe, secretary-general (South Africa UDF) |
1952-05-10 |
Lee Brilleaux, Durban South Africa, British musician (Dr Feelgood) |
1953-12-21 |
András Schiff, Out of Africa |
1954-04-01 |
Jeff Porcaro, Los Angeles California, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa) |
1954-06-25 |
David Paich, rock keyboardist (Toto-Africa) |
1954-11-22 |
Niven Boyd, Out of Africa |
1955-05-29 |
Mike Porcaro, rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa) |
1955-06-20 |
Carl Bilancione, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1955-10-30 |
Tom Buchanan, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1956-07-03 |
Eddie Edwards, South Africa, tennis star |
1957-01-01 |
Linda Spencer, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1957-01-28 |
Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer (1991 Byron Nelson Classic) |
1957-09-02 |
Steve Porcaro, LA Cal, rock keyboards/vocalist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa) |
1957-09-14 |
Kepler Wessels, Bloemfontein South Africa, South African cricketer who played for both Australia and South Africa, the latter as captain. |
1957-09-15 |
Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer (1993 SW Bell) |
1957-10-21 |
Steve Lukather, US rock singer/guitarist (Toto-Africa) |
1958-02-28 |
Jack Abramoff, Assignment Africa with Jack Abramoff |
1958-03-02 |
Kevin Curren, South Africa, tennis star |
1958-04-05 |
Johan Kriek, South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982) |
1958-04-18 |
Malcolm Marshall, World Cup Match 17: South Africa vs West Indies |
1958-07-22 |
Frank Garrison, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1959-04-22 |
Nicky Le Roux, South Africa, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Champ-15th) |
1959-04-27 |
Diane Ogden, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1959-05-05 |
Teresa Cooper, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1959-09-11 |
David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open) |
1960-03-01 |
Benedict Allen, Lost in Africa |
1960-09-28 |
Derek James, Durban South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Infiniti) |
1960-11-02 |
Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI) |
1961-03-04 |
Roger Wessels, Port Elizabeth South Africa, golfer (1994 Canadian Masters) |
1961-05-08 |
Zulfah Otto Sallies, Mama Africa |
1962-10-23 |
Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star |
1962-10-30 |
Courtney Walsh, South Africa vs Australia: 5th One Day International |
1963-01-03 |
Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer (1992 CGIA Canadian Tour) |
1963-01-28 |
Spike O'Neill, Senegal, Africa: Through My Eyes |
1963-06-18 |
Lex van den Berghe, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1963-11-02 |
Robert D. Hanna, Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted |
1964-01-17 |
Michelle Obama, Senator Obama Goes to Africa |
1964-01-24 |
Ronnie McCann, Evander South Africa, Nike golfer (1993 Hawkeye-37th) |
1964-06-02 |
Caroline Link, Nowhere in Africa |
1964-12-24 |
Gary Muller, South Africa, tennis star |
1965-11-03 |
Merab Ninidze, Nowhere in Africa |
1966-01-07 |
Corrie Sanders, Pretoria, South Africa, boxer, (WBO heavyweight champion, 2003), (d. 2012) |
1966-03-17 |
Andrew Hudson, cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992) |
1966-05-26 |
Zola Budd Pieterse, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Oly-1988) |
1966-10-10 |
Elana Meyer, [van Zyl], South Africa, runner (Olympics-silver-92) |
1966-11-02 |
Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player |
1967-08-08 |
Ben Fouchee, Kuruman South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1987 S Afr Amateur) |
1967-08-23 |
Cedella Marley, Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday |
1968-03-04 |
Dinky van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star |
1968-03-08 |
Clare Wood, Zululand South Africa, tennis star (1986 Futures-Lisbon) |
1968-05-01 |
Alicia Calaway, Countdown to Africa |
1968-07-05 |
Hunter Ellis, 3D Safari: Africa |
1968-12-02 |
Elna Reinach, Pretoria South Africa, tennis star |
1969-10-17 |
Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Open) |
1969-10-27 |
Gavin Blyth, Coronation Street: Out of Africa |
1969-11-27 |
Sean Kenniff, Countdown to Africa |
1970-03-11 |
Brett Liddle, Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle) |
1970-05-27 |
Andrea Saraceni, Le roccaforti d'Africa |
1970-10-04 |
Yvonne Michele Anderson, Epidemic Africa |
1971-02-15 |
Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer (1989 winner SA Champ) |
1971-03-08 |
Africa, Something Fo' Yo' Mouth 3 |
1971-09-15 |
Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star (Munich 1995) |
1971-10-22 |
Amanda Coetzer, Hoopstad South Africa, tennis star (1996 Aust semi) |
1971-12-03 |
Kim Powers, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1971-12-19 |
Birdie Africa, Let the Fire Burn |
1971-12-20 |
Natasha Nilson, Nowhere in Africa |
1972-05-19 |
Rohan Marley, Marley Africa Roadtrip |
1972-11-10 |
Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996) |
1972-12-18 |
Marcos Ondruska, South Africa, tennis star |
1973-02-01 |
Óscar Pérez Rojas, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1973-03-25 |
Dorette Potgieter, Africa |
1973-04-05 |
April D. Patrick, Uptown Hall: The Harlem South Africa Connection - Going Home |
1973-04-10 |
Africa, Women of Color 3 |
1973-09-03 |
Joanette Kruger, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star |
1973-11-12 |
Ethan Zohn, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1974-01-09 |
Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995) |
1974-02-07 |
Steve Nash, Johannesburg South Africa, Canadian NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers) |
1974-03-05 |
Paul A. Jackson, Equiano in Africa |
1974-04-25 |
Gabrielle Odinis, Nowhere in Africa |
1974-06-30 |
Hezekiel Sepeng, Potchefstroom South Africa, South African athlete |
1974-08-31 |
Lindsey Richter, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1974-11-01 |
V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v South Africa 1996- ) |
1975-08-07 |
Charlize Theron, Transvaal, South Africa, actress (The Cider House Rules, Monster) |
1975-08-22 |
Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe (1997) |
1975-10-25 |
Babett Pönisch, Nowhere in Africa |
1975-12-05 |
Martin Burkert, Nowhere in Africa |
1976-01-14 |
Vincent A. Villanueva, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
1976-01-22 |
Brandon Quinton, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1976-06-08 |
Adam Dexter, Out in Africa 2 |
1976-11-03 |
Guillermo Franco, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1976-9-01 |
Heidi Albertsen, Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa |
1977-02-02 |
Shakira [Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll], Barranquilla, Colombian pop singer ('Whenever Wherever', 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)') |
1977-12-21 |
Clarence Black, Survivor: Africa - The Reunion |
1978-02-08 |
Robert Carroll, The Inferno III: Welcome to Africa |
1978-05-14 |
Stephanie Pedros, Nowhere in Africa |
1978-07-26 |
Tino Schwanemann, Africa Light: Gray Zone |
1979-03-24 |
Ryan Williams, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
1980-11-25 |
Aaron Mokoena, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1981-07-30 |
Alison Flierl, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
1981-10-16 |
Africa, Black Pussy Search 3 |
1982-10-08 |
Garrett Strommen, I Dreamed of Africa |
1983-08-15 |
Michaël Balerdi, Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa |
1984-12-17 |
James C. Wilkie, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
1987-06-05 |
Jeff Zausch, Damned in Africa |
1987-10-04 |
Olivia Kolbe Booysen, Thinking About Africa |
1988-02-22 |
Efraín Juárez, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1988-07-25 |
Bela Klentze, Nowhere in Africa |
1989-02-17 |
Alexander Kujo Ireland, Voices of Africa |
1989-03-01 |
Carlos Vela, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1990-01-01 |
Marian Lösch, Nowhere in Africa |
1991-08-29 |
Lea Kurka, Nowhere in Africa |
1991-12-29 |
Nicola Chapman, Ernest Goes to Africa |
1993-04-14 |
Africa Nile, The Nutcracker in 3D |
1993-04-19 |
Avery Segal, Africa/Middle East |
1996-08-09 |
Thomas Stanley, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
Africa - Notable Weddings
Africa - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1914-01-14 |
Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke |
1985-08-15 |
Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa |
1987-01-03 |
Tennis player champ Mats Wilander (22) weds model Sonya Mulholland in South Africa |
1996-03-24 |
Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in South Africa |
2005-12-10 |
Rugby Star Clyde Rathbone (24) weds Carrie-Ann Leeson in South Africa |
Africa - Notable Deaths
Africa - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
68-04-25 |
Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa |
1510-03-01 |
Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier, explorer and 1st Viceroy of India dies at Table Bay, Africa at about 59 |
1865-11-25 |
Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies |
1873-05-01 |
David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60 |
1881-07-19 |
Isaac Baumann, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dies at 67 |
1890-05-19 |
Gus Kempis, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies of fever at 24 |
1892-02-19 |
Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England v South Africa 1889), dies at 26 |
1893-07-09 |
George Christopher Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban South Africa, dies at 79 |
1897-10-28 |
Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72 |
1899-12-11 |
Andrew Wauchope, British Major-General, dies in Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war, South Africa. Another British Major, The Marquess of Winchester also killed. |
1900-02-16 |
George Labram, US mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle |
1900-03-31 |
Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies |
1901-05-19 |
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81 |
1901-12-01 |
George Lohmann, cricketer (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies |
1902-01-17 |
Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed |
1905-06-15 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies |
1905-06-16 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51 |
1906-03-23 |
Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies |
1908-05-31 |
C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1909-07-10 |
Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies |
1911-02-04 |
Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75 |
1911-02-18 |
Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Aust v South Africa Test |
1911-11-23 |
Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies |
1915-08-04 |
Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68 |
1917-07-31 |
Charlie Finlason, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies |
1917-09-12 |
Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies |
1917-11-19 |
Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies |
1918-07-19 |
Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies |
1918-11-18 |
Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies |
1919-09-27 |
Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1924-10-05 |
Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies |
1927-05-09 |
Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies |
1928-12-21 |
Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1929-10-21 |
Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies |
1929-12-09 |
Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v South Africa 1899), dies |
1930-07-14 |
W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies |
1931-07-07 |
Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies |
1932-06-05 |
Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies |
1934-07-28 |
Louis Tancred, cricketer (fourteen Tests batting for South Africa 1905-14), dies |
1934-08-05 |
Neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa), dies at 26 |
1935-10-11 |
Frank Mitchell, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng then 3 for South Africa), dies |
1936-01-10 |
Charles Wright, cricketer (3 Tests England v South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1938-07-14 |
Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies |
1938-11-15 |
George Glover, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1939-01-31 |
George Thornton, cricketer (1 Test for South Africa 1902, 1* & 1-20), dies |
1939-10-21 |
Nummy Deane, cricketer (628 runs in 17 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1940-07-03 |
George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1896-99), dies |
1940-12-06 |
Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895), dies |
1941-06-10 |
Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52 |
1941-12-01 |
Horace Chapman, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa, 39 runs, 1 wkt), dies |
1942-08-31 |
Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle |
1942-11-27 |
A B C Langton, cricketer (WWII 15 Tests for South Africa 1935-39), dies |
1942-12-24 |
Jean Darlan, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1943-07-17 |
Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72 |
1943-09-28 |
Charles Vintcent, cricketer (played in South Africa's 1st 3 tests), dies |
1944-05-19 |
Godfrey Wilson, British Anthropologist of social change and colonial problems in Africa, commits suicide as a conscientious objector in WW II |
1944-05-26 |
C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1944-10-14 |
Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52 |
1945-02-16 |
Billy Frank, cricketer (Test South Africa v Eng 1896, 5 & 2, 1-52), dies |
1946-02-18 |
Harold Hurley, Bulldog Drummond in Africa |
1946-08-09 |
A E E Vogler, cricketer (South Africa, 15 Tests, 64 wkts), dies |
1946-11-22 |
Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa's Test), dies |
1947-12-31 |
Franz X Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 |
1948-03-05 |
Charles Prince, cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies |
1948-07-03 |
Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1948-07-08 |
Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies |
1948-09-11 |
Albert Powell, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies |
1949-03-19 |
Joe C. Gilpin, Africa Screams |
1951-04-27 |
Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1952-01-11 |
Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61 |
1952-05-16 |
Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v South Africa 1892), dies |
1952-11-08 |
Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1953-09-12 |
Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies |
1953-09-22 |
William Brann, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1954-03-28 |
Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 |
1955-01-11 |
Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72 |
1955-04-23 |
Frederic Brunn, Secret Service in Darkest Africa |
1956-04-17 |
William K. Wells, The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa |
1956-07-27 |
J M M Commaille, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa 1910-28), dies |
1958-05-25 |
Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1958-08-24 |
John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65 |
1958-11-18 |
Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies |
1959-02-07 |
Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84 |
1959-03-03 |
Lou Costello, Africa Screams |
1959-11-21 |
Max Baer, Africa Screams |
1961-09-05 |
Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies |
1961-10-02 |
Reggie Spooner, cricketer (England centurion v South Africa 1912), dies |
1961-11-06 |
Carl Lee, Africa Screams |
1962-01-06 |
Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 |
1962-09-07 |
Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77 |
1962-09-07 |
Karen Blixen, Out of Africa |
1963-06-12 |
Andrew Cunningham, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1963-11-22 |
Claude Floquet, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies |
1964-02-20 |
R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies |
1964-06-07 |
Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1964-09-15 |
Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies |
1965-08-27 |
Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies |
1965-11-14 |
George Bissett, cricketer (25 wickets in 4 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1966-08-17 |
Archibald Palm, cricketer (Test South Africa v England 1927-28), dies |
1967-07-21 |
Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies |
1971-03-18 |
George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies |
1971-07-04 |
Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1973-02-08 |
Herbie Taylor, cricketer (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1974-01-21 |
Ken Viljoen, cricketer (played 27 Tests for South Africa 1930-47), dies |
1974-01-30 |
Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wkts v South Africa 1910-11 series), dies |
1974-06-02 |
Waldemar F Eric Marx, cricketer (3 Tests South Africa v Aust 1921-22), dies |
1975-07-13 |
Owen Wynne, cricketer (6 Tests for South Africa 1948-50), lost at sea |
1979-07-07 |
D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies |
1981-06-03 |
Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72), dies |
1981-08-14 |
Dudley Nourse, cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies |
1982-07-16 |
Charles Robberts, The first State President of South Africa, dies at 88 |
1982-07-16 |
Louis Portugais, Freedom Africa |
1982-08-24 |
Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1982-08-28 |
G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies |
1983-01-03 |
Cedric Worth, Naked Africa |
1983-04-18 |
Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies |
1983-07-21 |
Frank Fenter, Africa Shakes |
1983-09-01 |
Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies |
1983-09-07 |
Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies |
1984-04-17 |
Mark W. Clark, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1985-05-13 |
John Africa, |
1986-07-18 |
Buddy Baer, Africa Screams |
1987-06-26 |
Glen Hall, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1965), commits suicide |
1987-07-25 |
Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), found on a dirt road a day after he had been detained at a police station |
1988-03-01 |
Joe Besser, Africa Screams |
1988-09-12 |
Stephen B. Grimes, Out of Africa |
1989-01-17 |
Mrs. Wynant D. Hubbard, Adventures in Africa No. 11: Beasts of the Wilderness |
1989-01-21 |
Field Marshal Lord Harding, The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943 |
1990-06-18 |
Dennis Dyer, cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1990-06-28 |
Dudu Pukwana, Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa |
1990-07-31 |
Sigfrid Tor, Secret Service in Darkest Africa |
1990-09-09 |
Samuel K. Doe, The Word Universe: A Journey to West Africa |
1992-04-03 |
Arthur Hecht, Africa Screams |
1992-08-05 |
Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 |
1993-04-14 |
Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death |
1993-04-18 |
Werner Pochath, Flatfoot in Africa |
1993-04-30 |
Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1993-08-25 |
Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26 |
1994-03-01 |
Tim Souster, Heritage Africa |
1994-03-03 |
Bob Crisp, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies |
1994-04-06 |
Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated |
1994-05-12 |
Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 22 wkts), dies |
1995-11-04 |
Tristram Jellinek, Out of Africa |
1996-08-10 |
James Fleming, Africa |
1996-11-03 |
Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75 |
1997-09-05 |
Rudolf Klicks, The Riders of German East Africa |
1999-11-04 |
Malcolm Marshall, World Cup Match 17: South Africa vs West Indies |
2001-01-28 |
Niven Boyd, Out of Africa |
2003-09-16 |
Jack Brymer, Out of Africa |
2004-02-07 |
Burt Wenland, Africa Screams |
2004-10-26 |
Peter Whitbread, Heritage Africa |
2005-02-06 |
John Percival, Africa |
2006-07-12 |
Stanis Nievo, Mal d'Africa |
2006-10-31 |
Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916) |
2007-01-04 |
Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915) |
2007-11-06 |
Peter Handford, Out of Africa |
2008-01-25 |
Edward Magruder Jones, Africa |
2008-02-19 |
David Watkin, Out of Africa |
2008-05-31 |
Charles Moskos, Chemical Plant Insecurity/They Didn't Ask, He Didn't Tell/The Kuwait of Africa |
2008-10-01 |
Ian Collier, Heritage Africa |
2010-09-05 |
Lewis Nkosi, Come Back, Africa |
2010-10-19 |
Graham Crowden, Out of Africa |
2010-11-26 |
Gavin Blyth, Coronation Street: Out of Africa |
2012-09-02 |
Louise Brooks, Voices of Witness Africa |
2013-04-24 |
Laurie Kay, Africa Express |
2013-09-20 |
Birdie Africa, Let the Fire Burn |
2014-01-03 |
Nick Zaran, Shaft in Africa |
2014-04-25 |
Stefanie Zweig, Nowhere in Africa |
2014-08-09 |
Jacob Ade-Ajayi, Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday |
2015-03-01 |
Africa, Something Fo' Yo' Mouth 3 |
2015-03-21 |
Sharon Tandy, Africa Shakes |
2016-05-13 |
Evelyn Eveva SitaliFormer Big Brother Africa star dies aged 29 |
2018-01-24 |
Africa's Jazz Maestro Hugh Masakela Dies, Aged 78 |
