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E-0083212event Communist-backed Katangan gendarmes, who had been living in neighbouring Angola, have invaded the region around Kolwezi in sout11 May 2012✓
E-0083068event Sir John Frederick William Herschel, well-known British astronomer (in South Africa 1834-38), dies in Collingswood, Kent, Engla11 May 2012✓
E-0082859event Regional Services Councils are introduced giving Blacks increasing say in second-tier government. It is decided that Blacks in7 May 2012✓
E-0082649event In an attempt to defuse the escalating tension in Morocco, France allows Germany to use the port of Casablanca.3 May 2012✓
E-0082453event Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.30 Apr 2012–
E-0082379event Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082353event Hundreds of Coloured school children are arrested in Johannesburg in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act during a student-polic23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082299event Stampede mars democracy party. At least fifteen people are treated in Pretoria Academic Hospital after they were injured in a s23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082217event Ten commuters are killed in a bomb explosion at a taxi rank in Germiston. The ‘Blanke Bevrydings-beweging’  (BBB) accepts resp23 Apr 2012–
E-0082208event Ten commuters are killed in a bomb explosion at a taxi rank in Germiston. The ‘Blanke Bevrydings-beweging’  (BBB) accepts resp23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082123event It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082114event Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081035event Joel Phoshoko (28), member of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (CCAWUSA), dies in police custody in Pretoria.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079846event A Defence White Paper analyses South Africa’s defence requirements in the context of the Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angol19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079804event During an emergency debate in Transkei’s Parliament in Umtata, Chief Matanzima threatens to cut diplomatic links with South Afr19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070172event Rhodesia announces 1 200 have been killed in its recent raids against Black nationalist guerrillas across the border in Mozambi25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069991event The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069984event Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070528event A United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees. The team was delayed in5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070515event South Africa cricket players Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock make their debut in a match vs New Zealand, in Durban.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070445event Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070427event Clarence Mlami Makwetu, former president of the Pan Africanist Congress, is born in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transke5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070239event J.G. Strijdom, in his first public appearance as Prime Minister, tells a National Party gathering in Pretoria that nothing will25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071142event Robert Mugabe and ZANU Central Committee survive an assassination attempt in a bombing of the party headquarters in Harare. Sev14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071122event The government confirms that guerrillas are being trained for operations in South Africa from bases in Botswana and Mozambique.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071106event Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, minister of agriculture in the war-cabinet of Gen. Smuts, is born in Calvinia, CC.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070983event Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp (64), controversial missionary and physician in the Eastern Cape, dies in Cape Town.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070926event Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke, who played an important role in African social, educational and political life, dies in Pretoria.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073790event Several thousand teachers march to the regional offices of the Department of Education and Training (DET) in Johannesburg, in o31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073535event An official statement in Lagos announces that twelve people, including four local politicians, were killed in an attack over a31 Jan 2012✓

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