Cape Corps image

20 September 1915

WWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established

20 September 1976

A delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community

20 September 1960

”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria

20 September 2002

Boeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.

20 September 2004

SA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final

20 September 1990

ANC and IFP to meet over violence

20 September 1989

F.W. De Klerk is inaugurated

20 September 1978

South African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns

20 September 1914

General Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.

20 September 1886

First mines are proclaimed in Johannesburg

20 September 1861

Henry Francis Fynn, Natal pioneer and settler, dies in Durban