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E-0069010event Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073488event Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073485event National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana, says that the NPKF will probably not be ready to keep the pea31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071285event Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071278event The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which SA is a party, is signed in Montego Bay.14 Dec 2011✓
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-0073782event President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073733event Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073681event With the return of President Lucas Mangope to office after the short-lived coup, students at the University of Bophuthatswana d31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073677event The appointment of South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, R.F. ‘Pik’ Botha, as the country’s next foreign minister, is31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073632event The United Nations Secretary-General, Dr. Waldheim, announces in New York that he has received a formal invitation to visit Sou31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073618event Two policemen are killed by a group of Blacks near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to collection of poll-tax, which31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073588event South Africa is to make its own missiles. Kentron (Pty) Ltd, a newly formed subsidiary of ARMSCOR (the South African Armaments31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073581event Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly co31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073566event Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073559event South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073549event The Prime Minister warns that the government will not hesitate to intervene, should campaigns by City Councils led by Johannesb31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073514event The Prime Minister announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the ‘homelands’ to speed up econ31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073512event Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072918event At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072769event Herero Revolt: A repair team begins to repair the destroyed state railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072690event The Sand River Convention, under which Britain renounces all claims to authority beyond the Vaal River, is signed.  This lays16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071915event The British government, in a change of policy, opens its doors to consultations with ANC leaders on a solution for South Africa6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071911event The government is reported to have frozen the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, Dr. Eschel Roodie, and6 Jan 2012–
E-0071883event Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071862event Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 1236 Jan 2012✓
E-0073427event Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073404event It is reported that a $650 flamethrower, invented by Charl Fourie, is available for installation on cars to protect against car31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073403event The police in Zimbabwe start a search for William Player (64), heir to the British John Payer Tobacco Company, who disappeared31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073318event Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g31 Jan 2012✓

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