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E-0082671event A twenty-year ban on big-game hunting is lifted in the Côte d’Ivoire in an attempt to raise tourist revenue.3 May 2012✓
E-0082668event The terms under which the alliance between COSATU, the SACP and the ANC should work together to dismantle apartheid, decided on3 May 2012✓
E-0082665event Dr Viljoen answers in parliament in response to a speech by Mr Peter Gastrow MP (National Democratic Movement) on behalf of Pee3 May 2012✓
E-0082660event Over 7,000 people attend a rally in Pretoria to mark the foundation on 4 May 1984 of the Afrikaner Volkswag (People’s Guard), a3 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 2012✓
E-0082600event Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po3 May 2012✓
E-0082590event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,3 May 2012✓
E-0082586event In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B3 May 2012✓
E-0082585event The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the3 May 2012✓
E-0082503event On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082455event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 30 Apr 2012–
E-0082451event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe30 Apr 2012–
E-0082444event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a30 Apr 2012–
E-0082388event President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation in Na23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082381event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082377event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082370event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082357event Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082354event The elections result in the return to power, with a slightly reduced majority, of the National Party and notable gains for the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082317event The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, orders the Minister of Law and Order, Le Grange, to investigate the activities of the Afrikaner23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082300event Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082286event The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White state (volkstaat), but ex23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082284event Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]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-0082190event General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the23 Apr 2012–
E-0082165event General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081517event Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081450event The Trans-Kalahari main road, the first road south of the Sahara to connect the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, is opened.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081412event Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081404event A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl5 Apr 2012✓

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