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E-0081820event David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and missionary who died of malaria on 1.5.1873 on the shore of Lake Bangweulu, is buried i13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081819event The ‘Volksraad’ of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek suspends Stephanus Schoeman as acting state president because of neglect of13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081818event The first school is founded six years after Van Riebeeck’s arrival at the Cape, with sick-comforter Willem Wijland as religious13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081817event Zimbabwe Day of independence.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081816event The South African National Government Cabinet receives a comprehensive briefing on the implementation of government policy on H13 Apr 2012–
E-0081815event Rudolph (Duimpie) Opperman, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA), dies in Johannesburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081814event President Mandela, present in his capacity as chief of the Temba clan, rather than Head of State, inaugurates the Council of Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081813event The government presents proposals to improve basic working conditions and encourage greater labour flexibility. Labour Minister13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081812event The ANC holds a special one-day summit with its alliance partners COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) and the S13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081811event During a working visit to Libya, Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo stresses South Africa’s eagerness to strengthen and develop its re13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081810event World Haemophilia Day is celebrated for the first time.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081809event Bessie Amelia Head, SA novelist, short story writer and social historian dies in Serowe, Botswana. She had gone to Botswana in13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081808event Special Offences Act No 6 commences, making it an offence to possess a tyre or similar object, or any inflammable liquid, in ci13 Apr 2012–
E-0081807event A police officer, WPC Yvonne Fletcher, is killed and ten people injured after shots were fired from the Libyan People’s Bureau13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081806event Prime Minister P.W. Botha says in an interview published today that he had ‘’certain reservations’’ about the Reagan Administra13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081805event The Union Jack is lowered for the last time in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of Rhodesia becomes Zimb13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081804event Dorothy Fischer becomes the first woman in SA to receive a new heart.  She lives for twelve years afterwards. 13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081803event C.H. Kuhn (Mikro), Afrikaans author, dies in Somerset West, CP.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081802event South Africa loses the rugby test match against Scotland 5-8.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081801event The United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081800event The South African National Party wins a third successive general election, allowing further introductions of ‘Grand Apartheid’13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081799event Founding of the Federation of South African Women.13 Apr 2012–
E-0081798event The Huguenot Monument by the architect C.P. Walgate, with the image of a woman by sculptor Coert Steynberg, is inaugurated in F13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081797event The ‘Suid-Afrikaanse Noodhulpliga’ (SA first-aid organisation) is founded 13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081796event Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081795event George M. Theal, historian, author and teacher, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081794event General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally has the Germans on the ru13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081793event Moroccan troops are in open revolt against French rule (initiated on 30 March).13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081792event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British delegation proposes that thirty representatives from each of the two Boer republics meet in a ‘na13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081791event Anglo-Boer War 2: the British government publishes Lord Roberts’ criticisms of Buller and Warren over the handling of Spioenkop13 Apr 2012✓

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