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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-0081834event Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 013 Apr 2012✓
E-0081780event Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes in “conflict situations”13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083319event Two White men are killed and twelve Africans injured in a clash between mine officials and miners outside the number one shaft14 May 2012✓
E-0083281event Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West14 May 2012✓
E-0083203event Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co11 May 2012–
E-0082753event Presidents Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela sign an agreement to allow South African farmers to settle and farm land in Moza7 May 2012✓
E-0082651event WWII: A combined British military and naval force land on Madagascar and by the afternoon the town of Diego Suarez is captured.3 May 2012✓
E-0082585event The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the3 May 2012✓
E-0082504event Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da30 Apr 2012✓
E-0081432event A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081404event A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081211event Thousands of Africans, Indians and Coloured people demonstrate in major towns and take the pledge. Dr. Dadoo says this is the b30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081185event The ANC presents an ultimatum which includes demands for the firing of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081117event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f30 Mar 2012✓
E-0070274event Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071153event Bertie Reed (63), for many years a Springbok and international sailing legend and one of the most-popular skippers in single-ha14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070949event President Mandela extends both the cut-off date for amnesty applications and the deadline for applications to the Truth and Rec9 Dec 2011–
E-0073454event Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi31 Jan 2012✓
R-0105346archive The guns and the explosions will speak even if the mass media is silent - and will be heard by the people22 Feb 2016–
E-0073784event Eight Army officers are paraded by President Samora Machel at a mass rally in Maputo and are accused of treason and complicity31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071924event Ivory Coast’s two western rebel groups, the Movement for Justice and Peace and the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Greater West6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071902event Derek Hanekom, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and former ministe6 Jan 2012✓
E-0072413event Jan Willem van der Rijst (’Oom Willem’), activist for Afrikaans and author of the first Spelling and Reading book for Afrikaans16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073234event Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073160event Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in27 Jan 2012✓
E-0071751event The Battle of Blaauwberg takes place, and part of the defending force capitulates two days later. Cape Governor Janssens and th6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071501event Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, poet and writer and first Black South African to receive a doctorate in literature, is born in Gro14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071373event Rev Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa since 1975 and SA minister of sport and recrea14 Dec 2011✓
B-0008542biography Patric Tariq Mellet1956–

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