Events

• 1 May - General Louis Botha
  Louis Botha
  Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state...
  
  , Prime Minister of South Africa, leads the army in the occupation of German South West Africa
• 9 July - Dr Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders to General Louis Botha at the farm Khorab, between Otavi
  Otavi
  Otavi is a town of 4,000 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of central Namibia. It is the district capital of the Otavi electoral constituency. Most of the area is dolomitic and the district was in the past renowned for its mineral wealth...
  
   and Tsumeb
  Tsumeb
  Tsumeb is a city of 15,000 inhabitants and the largest town in Oshikoto region in northern Namibia. Tsumeb is the home of the world-famous Tsumeb mine, and the "gateway to the north" of Namibia. It is the closest town to the Etosha National Park...
  
  

Births

• 2 February – Abba Eban
  Abba Eban
  Abba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician.In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations...
  
  , Israeli foreign affair minister, is born in Cape Town
  Cape Town
  Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
  
   (d. 2002
  2002 in Israel
  -Incumbents:* Prime Minister of Israel – Ariel Sharon * President of Israel – Moshe Katsav* Chief of General Staff - Shaul Mofaz until July 9, Moshe Ya'alon* Government of Israel - 29th Government of Israel-Events:...
  
  ).
• 10 May - Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé
  Beyers Naudé
  Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé was a South African cleric, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist...
  
  , cleric, theologian and activist, is born in Roodepoort, Transvaal
  Transvaal Province
  Transvaal Province was a province of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, and of its successor, the Republic of South Africa, from 1961 until the end of apartheid in 1994 when a new constitution subdivided it.-History:...
  
   (d. 2004
  2004 in South Africa
  -January:* 1 January – Asher Karni, an Israeli and South African businessman from Sea Point, Cape Town who is alleged to have supplied nuclear technology to Pakistan, is arrested at Denver International Airport, Colorado-March:...
  
  ).
• 13 December - Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister and President, is born in Uitenhage
  Uitenhage
  Uitenhage is a South African town with 275,185 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. The town's name is pronounced by English speakers and in Afrikaans...
  
  , Cape Province
  Cape Province
  The Province of the Cape of Good Hope was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa...
  
    (d. 1983
  1983 in South Africa
  -January:* 26 January - One person is killed and five injured by a bomb that explodes at the New Brighton Community Council offices* 30 January - A bomb explodes at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court Explosion-February:...
  
  ).