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E-0081941event South Africa’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, dies of a heart attack in Kampala. He was involved in the United13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081940event Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the cap13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081939event Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081938event First reports of Rwandan genocide are starting to appear.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081937event Five white Democratic Party MP’s defect to the ANC.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081936event A taxi war breaks out in Katlehong, East Rand.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081935event Dinana Mbetheni (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081934event Riaan Eksteen, head of SABC is relieved from his post following a political row with Pres. Botha.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081933event Ten railway coaches are set on fire in Soweto and another twenty-six are damaged. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 21 A13 Apr 2012–
E-0081932event A Group Areas Amendment Bill introduced on 7 March 1982 and enacted on 21 April, maintains the existing commitment to the princ13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081931event The Coloured schools’ boycott is joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and Natal. Black Consciousness grou13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081930event Manne Dipico, former Premier of the Northern Cape, is born in Kimberley13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081929event A military pact between Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen is finalised. 13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081928event At a mass meeting in Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) decide to set up the Transvaal Passive Resistance Counci13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081927event Benjamin Mzimkulu (Ben) Macala, SA artist, is born in Bloemfontein.   As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Orange13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081926event Sir Alfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Colony.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081925event Mahomed Dawood Barmania, businessman, politician and community worker, is born in Pietermaritzburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081924event Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo, pioneer minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and staunch Afrikaner patriot, dies.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081923event Prof. Adriaan Francken, professor in Dutch and French and later librarian at Grey College, arrives in Bloemfontein.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081922event Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff (73), 2nd president of the Orange Free State, is born in the district of Pietermaritzburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081921event Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb institute in Worcester, is born.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081920event David Livingstone arrives at the Cape to start his expedition to the interior.13 Apr 2012✓
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-0081918event Birth of Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck in Culemborg, the Netherlands. Van Riebeeck landed at the southern tip of Africa on 6 Ap13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081917event Ellen Kuzwayo (91), author, stalwart campaigner against apartheid in South Africa and a tireless fighter for women’s emancipati13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081916event About 100 striking Nigerian oil workers seize four offshore rigs and hold hostage ninety-seven expatriate workers as well as mo13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081915event Health workers will continue to get anti-retroviral drugs for needle stick injuries, despite a decision by the ANC’s National E13 Apr 2012–
E-0081914event Pharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit. The13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081913event Three internationally-renowned tenors, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, perform together before an audienc13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081912event In Kisangani, Zaire, rebel leaders bloc a massive U.N. airlift of Rwandan refugees, insisting that impassable roads be fixed an13 Apr 2012✓

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