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E-0074437event Harry Percival Madibane, educationist, school principal and soccer administrator, dies in Pietersburg. He was born at Blaauberg17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074271event Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and soldier in WW1, is born in Caledon, Western Cape.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074270event Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius), poet and Afrikaans Bible translator, is born in the Paarl vicinity, CC.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074259event Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe lashes out at international journalists and foreign governments, threatening to ban them fro17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074208event Dr. Hendrik J. van Eck (67), father of SA industry and chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation, dies.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074072event Charles William Engelhard, chairman of Rand Mines and director of Anglo American, is born in New York.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079690event William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079569event French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079560event A meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), African People’s Organisation (APO), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaa16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079547event SA wins the third cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington with 8 wickets and the series with 1-0.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079400event President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079350event The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076868event Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076867event Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076783event Ephraim Mojalefa (Kid) Ngatane, artist, teacher, musician and boxer, dies of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076763event Frank Moema, reverend and community leader, disappears after allegedly being abducted by men in camouflage gear. Coleman, M. (e12 Mar 2012–
E-0076750event First commercial air route is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076239event A methane-gas explosion at Gencor’s Ermelo mines kills thirty-four miners and injures at least another sixteen.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076218event South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and his counterparts from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regio5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074765event Reuben Tholakele (Thola) Caluza, Zulu composer and choir master who popularised Zulu folk music, dies in Durban.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074718event Eight Whites are killed in Brakpan in fights between government forces and revolutionaries during the Rand revolt.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074571event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that following Transkei’s land claims a thorough inqu24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076170event A Pretoria businessman Ian Macfarlane, his wife Francis and his father Boyd, disappear on a helicopter flight between Plettenbe5 Mar 2012✓
E-0010943event Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay to begin a hunting expedition16 Mar 2011✓
E-0011081event Marthinus Cornelius van Schoor, inventor of the single-line train control system and cultural leader, is born16 Mar 2011✓
R-0097672archive Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial by Laurence Piper, March 201428 May 2014–
R-0098815archive Legislature and Governance for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 30 March 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane13 Jan 2015–
R-0096377archive Controversial French lawyer, nicknamed ‘the devil’s advocate’, whose clients included war criminals and terrorists by Angelique Chrisafis 2 Sep 2013–
R-0096091archive South Africa’s Western Front Great War Memory and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission by Jacques de Vries16 Jul 2013–
R-0099052archive Political prisoners and victims still waiting for TRC closure by Phillip De Wet, 6 March 2015, South Africa12 Mar 2015–

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