Is yet more aid the solution that Africa needs to rescue the huge numbers of people on the continent who live in dire poverty? Or is the fact that it ... Read More

25 June – 1 JulyMozambique, Djibouti, and the Seychelles gain independence; anti-Apartheid activists hold a Congress of the People at Kliptown, near Johannesburg - delegates ratify the Freedom Charter; and ... Read More

18 – 24 JuneAfrikaner nationalists rebel against plans to have a Union Jack in the centre of the South African flag, Colonel Houari Boumedienne takes power in Algeria, General Nasser ... Read More

11 – 17 JuneDF Malan's National Party government votes to separate the people of South Africa into four distinct races (White, Bantu, Coloured, and Indian) through the Population Registration Act, ... Read More

The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Libya's official name, achieved independence from Italy on 24 December 1951, although it had been held under British (for Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) and ... Read More

A multinational group of scientists have successfully tested a vaccinne for Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fevers on monkeys, reports BBC News. A single vaccination injection provided protection and the results ... Read More

4 – 10 JuneBalthazar Johannes Vorster, non-executive president of South Africa, resigns after only eight months in office; JMB Hertzog's National Party and Jan Smuts' South African Party 'fuse' to ... Read More

After 10 months of trial, and three days for reading of the judge's ruling, Judge Hilary Squires has found Schabir Shaik, a former financial adviser to South Africa's Deputy President ... Read More