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E-0082293event Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081448event Mandela starts his visit (8-13 April) to Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE to promote trade and cultural links, accompanied5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081418event Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081193event President Nelson Mandela earns worldwide praise for his role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081135event Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081118event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079860event Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-19 Mar 2012✓
R-0084629archive How the man and his marriage will forever be remembered | Ruth First paid tribute to the couple: Walter and Albertina1 Jun 2012–
E-0070154event An argument between a man and his stepson about today’s rugby Test in which the Springboks beat Scotland, ends tragically when25 Nov 2011–
E-0070106event T.F. Burgers, state president of the Transvaal (1872), is reburied in Pretoria, nearly fourteen years after his death in Richmo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069554event SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death.   The sentence was later11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070632event Theo Gerdener resigns from the National Party on account of his involvement with Action South and Southern Africa (ACASA), an i5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070352event Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070299event Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro and his wife Florence Barbara are gunned down in their courtyard. Policemen A.J.M. Joubert, P.J. Verster25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070241event Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Cyprian Bhepezulu, and twelve Kraals occupied by his followers, are attacked by hostile Blacks fo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071205event Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071130event The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 3-4 against Uruguay in the Confederations Cup, with Lucas Radebe scoring his first int14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070992event Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed by the Transvaal section of the Supreme Court. He must serve his six year prison sentence.9 Dec 2011–
E-0070911event A newspaper reports in Mbabane that Swaziland’s King Mswati III has bought himself a luxury sedan worth about R3.5m while his d9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070909event A Zeerust family, Dr François Barnard, his wife and two sons are killed when their Piper Saratoga crashes during a storm near9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070856event Chief Albert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Lecture in Oslo after receiving the Peace Prize the previous day. The government issued9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070839event Sir Bartle Frere, new British High Commissioner, delivers an ultimatum to Cetewayo, Zulu chief, to disband his army, hand over9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069055event After a meeting between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073456event At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071281event The three ships, Drommedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop, carrying Jan van Riebeeck and his party, leave Texel, the Netherlands, on14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071276event Gladstone Sewela, former Mandela United Football Club member, is found near Zeerust hanging from a tree the day of his release14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071266event President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a leading exponent of Pan-Africanism, orders the release of the last of his political prisone14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073599event Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072694event Henry Smith, an Umlaas Road farmer and popular master, accompanies his workers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That evening,16 Jan 2012–
E-0073438event Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o31 Jan 2012✓

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