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E-0083321event CODESA II talks, started on the previous day, end in deadlock. The ANC threatens mass action if the government does not comprom14 May 2012✓
E-0083251event Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against14 May 2012–
E-0083105event Sir George Napier annexes Natal for Britain. It became a district of the Cape Colony on 31 May 1844. (Muller: 500 Years: a hist11 May 2012–
E-0083091event A report by the US Department of Mines claims that a ban on imports of South African minerals will cost the US the equivalent o11 May 2012✓
E-0082854event Abram (Bram) Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy with the ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe to commit7 May 2012✓
E-0082603event Justice Sfiso Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban.   As a child he drew on sand walls.  He received formal art training at t3 May 2012✓
E-0082234event Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081458event The Federal Council of the New National Party decides to disband the party at midnight on the evening of the final certificatio5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081200event Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys the section of the farm Lang Leegte, on which the main gold reef of the Witwatersrand was di30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080999event N.C. Gey van Pittius founds the Republic of Goshen on land assigned to them by Machette of Kunwana, after Boer volunteers assis30 Mar 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✓
E-0079780event Chief Patrick Mphephu, Chief Minister of Venda, is to hold talks with Prime Minister John Vorster on the issue of homeland inde19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079775event Justice Rumpff finds Sisulu and other accused not guilty on a charge of High Treason, in the special court in Pretoria They are19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070104event The Belvedere arrives in the Durban harbour with 318 Indian labourers, the second group to arrive to work on the sugar plantati25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069599event Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever, journalist and author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, is born on the farm11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069551event Babu Bodasing, also known as Dulel Sing Boodasing, prominent sugar cane farmer on the Natal north coast who arrived in Port Nat11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070639event Eleven residents are killed in an attack on an all-night funeral vigil aimed at remedying lack of support for Inkatha chairman,5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070629event Dr Chris Barnard performs the first heart transplant in the world on Louis Washkansky, who survived until the 21st of December5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070593event Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime Minister announces res5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070366event South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070362event The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071224event In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071162event Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, whose death is annually commemorated by the ANC and the SACP on14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071032event WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070881event On his last voyage of discovery in the Resolution and the Discovery, Capt. James Cook finds a group of islands, which he named9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073455event Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071255event Thomas Adolf Florin (32) is found guilty in Windhoek, Namibia, on the murder of his wife, Monika, in Swakopmund. He is sentence14 Dec 2011✓
R-0106809archive Draft position paper on the ideologies of Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness as they have developed in occupied Azania (ie South Africa)22 Feb 2016–
E-0073785event Elections for the Coloured and Indian Parliament under the new Constitution, to be held on 22 August 1984, are announced by the31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073712event The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds that31 Jan 2012✓

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