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B-0008102biography Graham Goddard1956–
E-0086207event Bambata Rebellion: Sigananda, one of the leaders of the rebellion, dies in the jail at Nkandla at midnight.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0011994event Four political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history16 Mar 2011✓
E-0092737event George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, dies in Cape Town.28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092668event Charlotte Lange disappears after being picked up from her home by eight Whites and one Black in a combi.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092591event A train is derailed and ploughs through a town near Alexandria, Egypt, killing forty-seven and injuring one hundred people.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092282event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British execute J.W.G. Jansen and one Rautenbach in Vryburg by hanging, for horse theft.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091908event The Prime Minister appoints fifty-six members to the President’s Council, comprising forty-one Whites, seven Coloureds, seven I27 Aug 2012✓
E-0081976event Marius Philip Olivier Burgers, one of the first full-time broadcasters of the ‘Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie’ (Afrikaans st23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082543event Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.3 May 2012✓
E-0082362event An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081037event The government imposes a one-year ban on all outdoor meetings except sports meetings and funeral gatherings in cemeteries. 30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079812event The Republic of Venda Constitution Amendment Act No 4, having the effect of making Venda a one-party administration (s 24(1)),19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069708event George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, is born in Johannesburg.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069628event Harold Vane Baumgartner, SA cricket player in one test (1913/1914), is born in Henley-on-Thames, England.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070652event A freak storm, one of the worst in living memory, hits Johannesburg International Airport, damaging several passenger jets so b5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070205event President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071185event The United Nations General Assembly passes a draft Resolution, by eighty-seven votes to one (Portugal) and twelve abstentions,14 Dec 2011–
E-0073467event C.W.H. Kohler, first chairman of the KWV, dies in Vishoek, CP one day before his 90th birthday.31 Jan 2012✓
B-0008111biography Phumzile John Gomomo1945-2008✓
B-0008904biography Shaun Maclean Pollock1973✓
R-0124612archive Talk by Alex Harris at the Symposium held in New York as part of the exhibition South African The Cordoned Heart17 Jan 2018–
E-0069504event Zimbabwe’s Minister of Agriculture Kumbirai Kangai issues orders for the seizure of 841 White-owned farms as part of the govern11 Nov 2011✓
E-0087826event SA, suspended since 1964, rejoins the International Olympic Committee and is allowed to take part in the next Olympic Games to6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087277event Guy Carleton Jones, mine engineer who played a major part in finding the lost main reef stretching from Randfontein to the Mooi28 Jun 2012✓
E-0088454event The League of Nations agrees to award former German colonies as mandates: Tanganyika (which formed the greater part of the Germ13 Jul 2012✓
E-0084818event Train apartheid is scrapped in the Western Cape as the first part of a plan to eliminate discrimination on trains throughout th1 Jun 2012✓
E-0092759event WWII: The Second Battle of El Alamein, in which many SA soldiers took part, commences with a thousand-gun barrage. The opening28 Aug 2012✓
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-0091854event A unique referendum in British Cameroon is carried out with support from UN. The Northern part of British Cameroon votes to joi24 Aug 2012✓

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