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E-0074682event Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074679event A ‘timeless’ cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th.   E24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076171event Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, twists his right knee in a Champions League game against Real Madrid, barring him from playi5 Mar 2012✓
E-0092759event WWII: The Second Battle of El Alamein, in which many SA soldiers took part, commences with a thousand-gun barrage. The opening28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092268event SA President Thabo Mbeki is publicly opposed to the provision of AIDS drugs in South Africa, arguing that they are dangerously27 Aug 2012–
E-0092150event SA signs multilateral treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space. Al27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091987event Basil D’Oliviera, English cricket player who was denied entry into SA because he was a Coloured, is born in Cape Town.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091949event According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091940event Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, is born in Well27 Aug 2012✓
E-0090665event The SA rugby team wins the last test against the British Isles in Newlands 5-0, the fist time ever to win a match.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090300event The National Security Act No 13 comes into effect in SA.  Providing for detention without trial, banning of individuals and ou10 Aug 2012–
E-0091592event Personnel of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron leave Durban to assist the United Nations in the Korean War.  23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090169event SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090156event The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout10 Aug 2012–
E-0090155event The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout10 Aug 2012✓
E-0083997event William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland.25 May 2012✓
E-0081919event Jahleel Brenton, SA artist and marine officer after whom the islands Brenton and Jahleel were called, is born in Warwick, Engla13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081646event Sydney Alex Kumalo (also documented as Khumalo), SA artist, is born in Johannesburg.  He began studying at Polly Street Art Ce5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081552event August Friedrich Beutler, official of the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G5 Apr 2012–
E-0083480event According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the18 May 2012✓
E-0083258event ’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).14 May 2012✓
E-0083209event Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou11 May 2012✓
E-0082886event Ruben Xulu SA artist is born in Hlabisa, Natal.  Xulu, born deaf, began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hlabisa mission statio7 May 2012✓
E-0082292event Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, with Lucas Radebe replacing Neil Tovey as captain, wins 2-1 against the former Zaire in a Wo23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081481event August Friedrich Beutler, official of the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081104event The Star reports that independent African churches are the largest single group of churches in SA, accounting for a fifth of al30 Mar 2012✓
E-0069904event The Free State cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by scoring 443/4 against Natal Do21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069585event In a move set to keep SA and Africa on the European Union’s (EU’s) radar screen, President Thabo Mbeki leads a top delegation o11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070342event The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070320event The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu25 Nov 2011✓

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