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E-0072920event Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072917event At a meeting between John Vorster and eight ‘homelands’ leaders, strong representations are made to the Prime Minister on the d20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072880event Dr Verwoerd announces the introduction of legislation for a referendum of White voters to decide whether South Africa would bec20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072755event Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072752event The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071876event A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in spo6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071873event North African nations of Libya and Tunisia announce agreement to merge as a new republic, the Islamic Arab Republic". The6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071856event The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Gideon Nieuwoudt, former police officer, for the death of Steve Biko6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073355event According to a study by the Human Sciences Research Council, violent attacks by Whites against Blacks have increased sharply in31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073348event Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073289event Chief Matanzima announces that all South Africans seconded to the Transkei Army will leave Transkei by 31 March 1978.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073252event The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073167event Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs, minister of finance, is elected as the National Party’s candidate to succeed State President Jim Fouch27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073152event William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073121event In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073054event Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073052event Former State Pres. F.W. de Klerk admits to an extramarital affair with Elita Georgiades, wife of a rich Greek businessman.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073042event The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072969event Premier  John Vorster decrees that in the future the ‘homelands’ will be allowed to accept direct foreign financial aid.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072932event Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death for leading the "Irish Commando" a20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071760event Adam Faith suspends his concert tour of South Africa, because the government prohibits him to perform before mixed audiences.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071631event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071593event The (Coloured) Labour Party opts for an election for the eighty representatives to the Coloured House of Representatives, witho14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071592event At its annual conference in Eshowe, Natal, the Labour Party overwhelmingly adopts a resolution stating that it seeks to represe14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071534event Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071520event The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as th14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071491event President Thabo Mbeki joins several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071425event Battleships are sent to Tangiers by the Spanish government as the first part of its intended invasion of Morocco.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071417event Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071387event Commandant Gideon Scheepers is found guilty on several charges by a British court martial and sentenced to death. He professes14 Dec 2011✓

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