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E-0082116event For the next month, until May 25, a comet known only as “The Great Comet of 1901’ is visible over most of SA.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0079817event The SA government seals off all borders with Transkei to prevent any further cross-border attacks from Transkei by the Pan-Afri19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070266event De Beers SA, the world’s largest producer of diamonds, agrees to pay $250m to settle four US class-action lawsuits that accused25 Nov 2011✓
E-0072981event The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses the Africa Cup of Nations Group A game versus Egypt 0-1at the FNB Stadium, Johannesbur20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071829event Mozambique and Zimbabwe sign a defence and security agreement under which an attack by SA on either country will be taken as an6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071410event The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, to which SA is a party, is signed i14 Dec 2011✓
E-0094600event More than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa17 Jan 2013✓
R-0072308archive Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes13 Jan 2012–
E-0073806event Athanase Seromba surrenders to the ICTR after being accused of participating in the slaughter of the Tutsis 1 Feb 2012✓
R-0072313archive Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography13 Jan 2012–
E-0069334event One-day general strike takes place in Port Elizabeth to protest police attacks in Kimberley and East London which resulted in t7 Nov 2011✓
E-0087748event An illegal demonstration in Kenya becomes known as the “Saba Saba” (Seven Seven the date in Swahili). The government sends in p6 Jul 2012✓
E-0089469event In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country’s history, women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to pres31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089370event Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia31 Jul 2012✓
E-0086156event Anglo-South African driver Pat Fairfield dies of injuries sustained in a crash in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085648event Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t8 Jun 2012✓
E-0074235event The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079611event Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo.  He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 1916 Mar 2012✓
E-0076252event In response to a question by Mr R Jankielsohn (DP) in the National Assembly, President Mbeki replies that he spent 300 days in5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074652event The United Party suffers reverses in municipal elections in the Transvaal and fails to contest the Randburg seats because of in24 Feb 2012✓
E-0092719event Veteran French war journalist Jean Helene is shot dead in cold blood in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast by a police officer.28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092080event Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t27 Aug 2012–
E-0090342event Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090685event The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084085event An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody in Johannesburg Security Police headquarters in August 198225 May 2012✓
E-0083273event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri14 May 2012✓
E-0073604event Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072696event In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073265event Charles Etienne Boniface, author of the first original drama published in South Africa, is born in Paris, France.   In the dr31 Jan 2012✓
E-0012936event ANC stage marches in major cities16 Mar 2011✓

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