1895 - Brassmen attack Royal Niger Company's station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs of Brass and its allies refuse to give up their prisoners or join in the cannibal feast.
References: Pakenham, T. (1991). The Scramble for Africa, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball | http://www.brainyhistory.com/ | http://www.ianmccall.co.uk/

1940 - The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hertzog.
References: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau

1942 - WW2: German and Italian forces take Benghazi, Libya. 
References: http://africanhistory.about.com/

1950 - The first violence caused by apartheid occurs in Johannesburg.
References: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | http://www.news24.com

1957 - The Durban College of Education is started in the backyard of the Durban Girls' High School.
References: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau

1966 - Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
References: http://africanhistory.about.com/

1980 - Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the "Stellenbosch-boerorkes", dies.
References: Swart, M.J., et al. (eds)(1980). Afrikaanse Kultuuralmanak,  Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge.

1986 - Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni's National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army's military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month.)
References: http://africanhistory.about.com/

1988 - Linda Brakvis of Heldemoed, OFS, UDF member, is found stabbed three days after release from detention.
References: Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 249.

1991 - Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They issue a statement on a joint peace strategy, the Royal Hotel Minute.
References: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | Meer, F. (ed)(1993). The Codesa file. Durban: Madiba Publishers, p. 33 | http://www.sahistory.org.za | http://www.news24.com

1993 - At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war if democratic negotiations fail. Multi-party constitutional talks will resume in March.
References: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

1993 - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
References: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

1993 - Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
References: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

1993 - French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
References: http://africanhistory.about.com/ | http://www.news24.com

1995 - Ten mineworkers are killed in fighting between two rival groups at a hostel at Vaal Reefs Mine.
References: Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 269.

1996 - Eight people are killed and 29 injured in riots outside a factory in Johannesburg.
References: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau

1996 - Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James's Church in Cape Town in July 1993.
References: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

1996 - The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on 'third force' activity returning to the main industrial area around Johannesburg.
References: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

1999 - The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is incorporated as a private company with the State as sole shareholder.
References: Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa Yearbook 2001/02, Pretoria: GCIS, p. 111

1999 - date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African government.
References: wikipedia.org

2000 - In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file for divorce under a new law that doesn't require women to prove physical or psychological harm.
References: http://www.news24.com

2002 - In a direct defiance to South Africa's patent laws, Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap, generic version of patented Aids drugs into South Africa.
References: http://www.news24.com

2003 - US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African countries and two Caribbean nations.
References: http://www.news24.com