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E-0082258event Dr Karl Bremer, Minister of Health in Dr Malan’s cabinet, is born in Hopefield.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082257event Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She cam23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082256event William Cotton Oswell, scout who saw the Victoria Falls with David Livingstone, is born in Worthing, England.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082254event Freedom Day since 1994.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082252event The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082251event Hijackers seeking to draw attention to the economic and political strife in Ethiopia divert a passenger plane to Khartoum, Suda23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082250event The Chernobyl computer virus, perhaps the most destructive so far, damages hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082249event Wilma von Molendorff (36) dies after a shark attack off the coast of Mozambique.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082248event Winnie Mandela, former wife of President Mandela, is overwhelmingly re-elected as president of the ANC’s Women’s League by 65623 Apr 2012✓
E-0082247event UNCTAD Conference (26 April – 11 May) starts in Johannesburg.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082246event South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections (26-29 April) for the national assembly and provincial parliaments start.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082245event Chief Minister Enos Mabuza of KaNgwane calls for the dissolution of the homeland’s government at the opening of the second sess23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082244event The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082243event The Rajab brothers opens their second cinema, the Shiraz. The cinema was housed in the new Rajab Centre in Victoria Street, Dur23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082242event The Ben Schoeman freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria is opened.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082241event Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the United Republic of Tanzania. Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Han23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082240event French Army rebels once again try to take power in Algeria.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082239event Popo Molefe, former premier of the North West Province appointed in 1994, is born.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082238event WWII:  North Africa:  Access to the Tunisian plain is open to the Allies following the capture of Longstop Hill.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082237event WWII: North Africa: Following the fall of the Halfaya Pass, three columns of Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps have crossed the b23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082236event WWII: East Africa: The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, is captured by Gener23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082235event Italian troops assemble for an attack on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.23 Apr 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-0082233event Arnold van Wyk, SA composer, is born.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082232event Gandhi and his rivals in the NIC go their separate ways.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082231event Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082230event William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba), author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagon-maker, dies in Lovedale, East23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082229event Dr Anna Petronella van Heerden, the first Afrikaner lady to qualify as medical doctor, is born.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082228event Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor23 Apr 2012✓

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