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E-0091046event The government of President Robert Mugabe will soon lay claim to half ownership of all the country’s privately owned mines, the14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090897event The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) sign an agreement on wages and working conditions averting the14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090707event Sir Henry Frere, governor of the Cape Colony, lays the corner stone of the present Dale College in King William’s Town.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090690event The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090689event The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084093event Ferdi Barnard, former member of the CCB (Civil Cooperation Bureau) is found guilty of the murder in Johannesburg on the activis25 May 2012✓
E-0081993event The Star reports that Gordon Webster, an alleged ANC insurgent, was found guilty of the murder of a policeman and the attempted23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081773event The last general election of the Union of South Africa is held.   The National Party under J.G. Strydom wins 103 seats.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081662event The Star reports that delegates at the annual congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were urged by leading unionis5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081604event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012–
E-0083610event A full bench of eleven judges of the Appeal Court upholds an appeal against a conviction under the Terrorism Act, on the ground18 May 2012✓
E-0083422event The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o18 May 2012✓
E-0083255event Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond14 May 2012✓
E-0083207event The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi11 May 2012✓
E-0082856event A Second Defence Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th7 May 2012✓
E-0082600event Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po3 May 2012✓
E-0082300event Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081520event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081435event A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081226event The Human Rights Commission (HCR) of South Africa says that the level of violence in the country has reached unprecedented leve30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081204event Following the death of Lord Carnarvon in Egypt, owners of Egyptian antiquities swamp the British Museum in the hope that they w30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081122event World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081112event The shipwrecked sailors of the Nieuw-Haerlem leave the Cape with W.G. de Jongh after an enforced stay of nearly a year.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0070142event Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two mercenaries involved in the hijacking of an Air India plane after the a25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069894event The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070627event The Rivonia Trial, concerning two charges of sabotage, one under the Suppression of Communism Act, and one under the General La5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070467event A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London.5 Dec 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✓
E-0070865event The UN Security Council chooses Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073716event Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.31 Jan 2012✓

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