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E-0069713event Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069685event Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070598event Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070558event Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070521event The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0071213event Louis Washkansky (53), first heart transplant patient in the world, dies in Cape Town, eighteen days after receiving the heart14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071198event Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071184event Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070905event Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia9 Dec 2011–
E-0070819event American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070816event Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069066event Relief officials scramble to find a way to bring aid to a million Rwandan Hutu refugees engulfed in a rebellion in eastern Zair1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069037event The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073496event Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073787event In response to a question in parliament, the minister of education and development aid, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, said that 917 school31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073629event Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073596event In Cape Town the heaviest possible sentence in the South African Justice system is imposed on the Niewoudtville murder gang –31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073536event A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072906event Cetewayo’s impis wipe out British troops at Isandhlwana in one of the worst disasters in British military history, stabbing 12720 Jan 2012✓
E-0072901event A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072889event A spokesman for the Lutheran World Federation, meeting in emergency session in Geneva, says there are now twenty-one people det20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073352event The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073181event David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073000event Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a meeting with President P.W. Botha in the beginning of 19820 Jan 2012✓
E-0072945event The independent Human Rights Committee (HRC) reports that 837 people have been killed in political violence in 1995 compared to20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071830event Obed Amon Mwanza of Zimbabwe is killed and six members of the ANC injured in a car bomb explosion in Bulawayo.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071826event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Chief Jonathan of Lesotho meet in Cape Town. A joint statement emphasises their belief in peace6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071754event The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 19256 Jan 2012✓
E-0071662event The Acting General-Secretary of the Lutheran Church in South Africa claims that T. Muofhe, a Lutheran elder, has died in custod14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071550event Major General Bantu Holomisa, who became head of a military state in Transkei after a coup in December 1987, lifts martial law14 Dec 2011✓

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