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E-0081829event Phambili Ka Ntloko, prominent member of AZAPO and elected national organiser of the movement in 1985, is born in Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081820event David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and missionary who died of malaria on 1.5.1873 on the shore of Lake Bangweulu, is buried i13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081780event Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes in “conflict situations”13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081773event The last general election of the Union of South Africa is held.   The National Party under J.G. Strydom wins 103 seats.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081743event The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general election.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081662event The Star reports that delegates at the annual congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were urged by leading unionis5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081651event A special committee of the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081633event Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for5 Apr 2012–
E-0081604event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012–
E-0081601event Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai5 Apr 2012–
E-0081582event Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He is officially ina5 Apr 2012–
E-0081565event Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a5 Apr 2012–
E-0081564event Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a5 Apr 2012–
E-0081558event Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid5 Apr 2012–
E-0081549event Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083691event Business Day reports that COSATU rejected the findings of a Gallup-Markinor poll whish found that almost 90 per cent of South A18 May 2012✓
E-0083663event Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan18 May 2012✓
E-0083627event In East Africa’s worst marine disaster, a Tanzanian ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the est18 May 2012✓
E-0083610event A full bench of eleven judges of the Appeal Court upholds an appeal against a conviction under the Terrorism Act, on the ground18 May 2012✓
E-0083557event In a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights in the constitution18 May 2012✓
E-0083550event Derek Louw and Franco Fruscurd, editor and cartoonist of the Wits Student, are arrested and detained overnight on charges of de18 May 2012✓
E-0083461event The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university18 May 2012✓
E-0083422event The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o18 May 2012✓
E-0083398event Dr Carel de Wet, grandson of Gen. C.R. de Wet, former minister of health and diplomat, is born in Memel, OFS.18 May 2012✓
E-0083255event Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond14 May 2012✓
E-0083209event Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou11 May 2012✓
E-0083207event The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi11 May 2012✓
E-0083203event Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co11 May 2012–
E-0083195event For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men11 May 2012✓
E-0083164event Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by rebel tribesm11 May 2012✓

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