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E-0071298event Libya declares its independence as a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris I. It is the first country to achi14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071297event In a South Africa vs Queensland cricket match, Don Bradman scores 233 runs in 191 minutes for Queensland. It includes 28 fours14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071296event Grimmett takes 9-180 for South Africa as Queensland make 430.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071295event At Kommetjie, near Cape Town, 103 whales are washed ashore.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071294event Ronald Draper, cricketer (South African batsman vs Australia 1949-50), is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071293event Richard John Maponya, leading race-horse breeder and businessperson, is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (no14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071292event Wilton Z. Mkwayi, South African ANC activist and former Robben Island prisoner, is born near Middledrift in the Ciskei.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071291event Anwar Al Sadat, president of Egypt (1970-81), is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, forty miles north of Cairo. He achieved peace with Isr14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071289event German South West Africa abolishes slavery of young children.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0075584event Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands1 Mar 2012✓
E-0075583event Saxophone player, Bobby Hendricks, dies in Cape Town1 Mar 2012✓
E-0075581event British racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami1 Mar 2012✓
E-0075580event ANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act1 Mar 2012✓
E-0075579event The governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line1 Mar 2012✓
P-0013995place Grey Street Complex16 Mar 2011–
E-0067458event Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped3 Aug 2011✓
E-0079488event In Sharpeville sixty-nine Blacks are shot and 152 wounded by police during a demonstration.  (The official report of the Commi16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079503event Start of a weekend of events commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings on 21 March 1960. Speakers at16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079509event A large-scale work and school stay-away takes place to commemorate the Sharpeville shootings in 1960.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079720event Pass laws are suspended in South Africa16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079746event ANC calls a nation-wide stay-at-home in protest at the Sharpeville massacre. Passbooks are burned in countless bonfires.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0081955event Over a thousand people are detained under state of emergency following the Sharpeville massacre18 Apr 2012✓
E-0084190event Iraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies31 May 2012✓
E-0090230event State of Emergency declared on 30 March following the Sharpeville Massacre is lifted.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0095316event A two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal20 Mar 2013✓
P-0065959place Indigo Vats, Pinetown14 Jul 2011✓
P-0121949place Amandel, a Railway Siding in the Eastern Cape21 Sep 2016✓
E-0013229event Day of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time16 Mar 2011✓
P-0095772place Compensation, Settlement near Durban29 May 2013✓
P-0095775place Elukhanyweni29 May 2013–

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