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E-0081203event Caspar (Casper?) Kruger, the son of Paul Kruger (ex-president of the Transvaal), takes the oath of allegiance to Britain.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081193event President Nelson Mandela earns worldwide praise for his role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081135event Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081130event Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081118event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081103event Author, educationist and social worker and later ANC member of parliament, Ellen Kuzwayo, becomes the first Black woman to rece30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081038event A silent procession of nearly 1000 people, led by religious leaders, file through the streets of Durban to express their opposi30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080995event Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, British philanthropist who influenced British policy in South Africa to a large extent, is born in Es30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079860event Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079859event Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079840event 6000 Indians march in Durban to protest against the Asiatic Bill, and support the South African Indian Congress resolution for19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079820event The consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free-to-air television licence and e.tv started broadcastin19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079787event The African National Congress (ANC) calls off a peace rally to be held with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for April 2 i19 Mar 2012–
E-0079786event The African National Congress (ANC) calls off a peace rally to be held with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for April 2 i19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079756event Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg resigned and is replaced by Trevor Manuel. Alec Erwin is promoted to Manuel’s post. Gill Marc19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079708event Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079704event Mr Piet Clase, Minister of Education for Whites, announces that the government has decided to abandon the principle of segregat16 Mar 2012✓
R-0084629archive How the man and his marriage will forever be remembered | Ruth First paid tribute to the couple: Walter and Albertina1 Jun 2012–
E-0070173event In his first major speech since his election as Transvaal leader Dr A.P. Treurnicht revives the concept of a ‘Colouredstan’ to25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070168event The United Nations’ General Assembly adopts an eight nation resolution, by seventy-two votes to two, with twenty-seven abstenti25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070119event Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069980event Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069973event South African flanker Schalk Burger (21) picks up two major international awards, the first player ever to receive the internat21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069956event Anglo-Boer War 2: Major-General Smith-Dorrien, leaving only the church standing, razes the town of Dullstroom to the ground.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069953event The families who survived the Thirstland Trek and made it to Angola, are naturalised as Portuguese subjects, assured of freedom21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069905event The SA Communist Party (SACP), following a weekend meeting of its augmented central committee, calls for an end to the Mugabe g21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069871event Rugby world champion England beats Tri-Nations kings South Africa 32-16 at Twickenham to record its sixth successive victory.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069851event The British parliament adopts the Balfour Declaration signed by delegates the previous day.  This paves the way to self-govern21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069729event The BBC reports an animal airlift is planned for the Congo. The airlift will take chimpanzees to Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069693event The three Zimbabwean intelligence officers standing trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house in Bulawayo are sentenced to death.11 Nov 2011✓

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