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E-0091654event On the last day of the Athens Paralympic Games, Malcolm Pringle follows up his 800m golden world record with a silver medal in23 Aug 2012–
E-0091505event President F W de Klerk arrives in Washington at the start of a three-day visit, stressing that his main aim is not the lifting23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091459event The Prime Minister pays a secret visit (22-23 September) to the Ivory Coast in pursuit of his policy of seeking dialogue with B23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091389event Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys’ High, Oscar Pistorius, falls coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amp23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091292event Ingrid Jonker, SA poet whose poem ‘Die Kind’ was read by President Nelson Mandela during his first opening of parliament, is bo23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090115event Fana Nzimande, IFP supporting headman, his wife and four children between the ages of four to fifteen, are shot dead in their h10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090064event Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta (born Kamau Johnstone on 20 October 1891) dies in office in Mombasa. He is succeeded by his vice10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089990event George Adamson (83), naturalist and husband of Joy, who wrote Born Free, and two of his assistants are killed by Somali poacher10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089906event The father of Rosalind Ballingall, who got lost in the Knysna forest, arrives from Johannesburg to assist in the search for his10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089869event In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite of abho10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091145event Boer leader General Koos de la Rey, en route to Potchefstroom with general Beyers, is shot dead when his chauffeur-driven car f23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090876event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Pres. Paul Kruger crosses the Transvaal border on his way to Lourenço Marques, from where he leaves for Eu14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090751event Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090704event Swazi King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has picked a 16-year-old girl, Miss Teen Swaziland as his new wife, brin14 Aug 2012–
E-0081851event At the celebrations of twenty-five years of independence of Zimbabwe, Pres. Mugabe, who has led his country for the past twenty13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081814event President Mandela, present in his capacity as chief of the Temba clan, rather than Head of State, inaugurates the Council of Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083618event Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home18 May 2012–
E-0083617event Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home18 May 2012✓
E-0083390event Dick King, a 29-year-old wagon driver, and his 16-year-old servant, Ndongeni, leave Durban on horseback for Grahamstown on an e18 May 2012✓
E-0082843event Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.7 May 2012✓
E-0081141event Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081001event At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079822event Britain’s Queen mother, widow of King George VI and mother of his successor to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 101.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069558event SA boxer Vic Toweel loses his world bantamweight title when he is knocked out by Australian Jimmy Carruthers in the first round11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070623event Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070531event News 24 reports that South African actor Antony Coleman has won the award for best actor in a feature film for his performance5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070451event Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070881event On his last voyage of discovery in the Resolution and the Discovery, Capt. James Cook finds a group of islands, which he named9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070807event Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, collects his prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073455event Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area31 Jan 2012✓

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