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E-0083112event Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a11 May 2012✓
E-0082874event Alwyn Petrus Burger, founder of the charity service of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal, is born in Montagu, Cape Provinc7 May 2012✓
E-0082856event A Second Defence Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th7 May 2012✓
E-0082835event Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba7 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-0082639event President F. W. de Klerk announces plans to revise some provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1982. He also offers to incl3 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-0082496event N.C. (Klasie) Havenga, private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog and minister of finance in Dr. Malan’s cabinet, is born in Faur30 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-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-0082320event Business Day reports that Dr Simon Brand, chief executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, has warned that the expen23 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-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-0082148event Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081520event 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-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-0081505event Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He is officially ina5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081493event 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-0081487event Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081461event The constitution of the Orange Free State, which was largely influenced by the constitutions of the USA and the French Republic5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081435event A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081237event Algerian Ahmed Ressam is convicted of terrorism for bringing a car loaded with explosives into the United States as part of an30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081226event The Human Rights Commission (HCR) of South Africa says that the level of violence in the country has reached unprecedented leve30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081204event Following the death of Lord Carnarvon in Egypt, owners of Egyptian antiquities swamp the British Museum in the hope that they w30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081122event World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081112event The shipwrecked sailors of the Nieuw-Haerlem leave the Cape with W.G. de Jongh after an enforced stay of nearly a year.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081104event The Star reports that independent African churches are the largest single group of churches in SA, accounting for a fifth of al30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081039event As part of the consolidation process of homelands, Ndume (Ndumo?) Game Reserve is given to KwaZulu. This means that KwaZulu now30 Mar 2012✓

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