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E-0092023event Anglo-Boer War 2: A crowd of stranded Black mineworkers block part of Marshall Street, but at night time the police persuade th27 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-0089933event Douglas Fuchs (84), one of the first full-time Afrikaans broadcasters and former director general of the SABC, dies during a bo10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089772event The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into effect.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091069event The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into effect.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090953event The British Union Flag (Union Jack) is raised for the first time at Fort Salisbury, marking the beginning of prolonged British14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083412event Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.18 May 2012✓
E-0082677event The Bulls convincingly beat the Reds 92-3 in a Super 14 match played on Loftus, Pretoria, following a 38-3 lead at half time. T3 May 2012✓
E-0079858event Blacks comprise 73,9 % and Whites 26,1 % of the full-time component of the Department of Defence. The department has been reduc19 Mar 2012✓
E-0071252event South Africa’s White parliament, sitting probably for the last time, buries apartheid, voting 237 to 45 to adopt an interim con14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073430event The government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073137event Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They27 Jan 2012✓
E-0072928event For the fifth time in a row a South African driver has won the Rotax Grand Final World karting championship in Lanzarote, Canar20 Jan 2012✓
B-0008114biography Goolam H. Gool1905-1962✓
B-0008732biography Jayaseelen Naidoo1954–
B-0149210biography Sally Gross1953-2014✓
R-0153124archive Witbank Security Police offices operation, 24 October 1988, Times, 27 June 20115 Dec 2025–
E-0069305event Mpho Mathibela, one of the two Siamese twins separated in an operation six months ago, leaves hospital for the first time. She7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069231event Tiger Woods squanders a lead on the final round of a PGA event for only the third time in his career, allowing South Africa’s R7 Nov 2011✓
E-0093000event The Rev Beyers Naude, who was previously banned by the government, speaks publicly for the first time in twenty-seven years at28 Aug 2012✓
E-0087404event Jean Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher and author, whose influence was felt in the Cape Colony, dies. At the time of his dea28 Jun 2012✓
E-0084932event Islamic militants with alleged links to al-Qaida seize control of Somalia’s capital, unifying the city for the first time in 161 Jun 2012✓
E-0074213event Eastern Province Herald reports that for the first time in SA police history three Black policemen were promoted to the rank of17 Feb 2012✓
E-0090641event The SA rugby team comes back and win the third test against New Zealand 19-16, after trailing 5-16 at half-time.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090390event World War 2: North Africa. US Army Air Force planes see action for the first time in North Africa, bombing German military posi14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084084event The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement25 May 2012✓
E-0082060event Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre23 Apr 2012–
E-0082006event Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082787event Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr7 May 2012✓
E-0079857event The North Sea Jazz Festival (31 March – 1 April) starts in Cape Town. It is the first time a jazz festival on four simultaneo19 Mar 2012✓

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