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24 July – Free State – Heilbron to Petrus Steyn, 31 miles 6 chains (50.0 kilometres). [2] 10 September – Transvaal – Lydenburg to Steelpoort, 74 miles 40 chains (119.9 kilometres). [2] 19 September – South West Africa – Gobabis Junction in Windhoek to Ondekaremba, 29 miles 70 chains (48.1 kilometres). [2]
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
3 February: 1996 Africa Cup of Nations Final football contest played in Johannesburg. Population: 752,349 city. [32] 1997 MTN Sundrome opens. Flag of Johannesburg revised design adopted. 1998 – Website Joburg.org.za launched. [33] 1998 – St Peter's College was founded. 1999 – September: 1999 All-Africa Games held in city. 2000
28 September – Pieter-Dirk Uys, performer, author, satirist, and social activist. 5 October – Riaan Cruywagen, news reader and voice artist; 16 October – Kaizer Motaung, footballer, founder & chairman of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. 22 October – Lillian Dube, actress & TV host; 17 December – Belinda Bozzoli, academic and politician (d.2020)
September 28, 1924 (Sunday) [ edit ] The four remaining American aviators in the round-the-world flight expedition completed their journey by landing at Sand Point in Seattle in the airplanes Chicago (with pilot Lowell H. Smith and co-pilot Leslie P. Arnold) and New Orleans (with pilot Erik H. Nelson and co-pilot John Harding Jr), all four of ...
The Union of South Africa was tied closely to the British Empire, and automatically joined with Great Britain and the allies against the German Empire.Both Prime Minister Louis Botha and Defence Minister Jan Smuts were former Second Boer War generals who had fought against the British, but then became active and respected members of the Imperial War Cabinet.
12 January – Eileen KaNkosi-Shandu, leader of the Inkatha Women Brigade. 27 February – Graeme Pollock, former cricketer & cricket administrator 3 March – Jerrold Kessel, South-African-born Israeli journalist and author.
The strategic military situation of Free French Africa offered Free France and the Allies a vast support and communications base in the heart of Africa. As a result, air transport and other infrastructure were widely developed. Seven airports were renovated or built, including the Fort-Lamy and Pointe-Noire airports, completed in 1942. [5]