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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✓
E-0070142event Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two mercenaries involved in the hijacking of an Air India plane after the a25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069894event The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069712event Prof. Elize Botha, Afrikaans literary critic and former president of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SA Academy of Scien11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070627event The Rivonia Trial, concerning two charges of sabotage, one under the Suppression of Communism Act, and one under the General La5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070617event Peter (Petrus) K. Masiza, teacher and later priest in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, dies in Tsomo, Eastern Cap5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070582event A proclamation by Commander R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070573event The discovery of the oldest complete fossilised hominid or human-like skeleton in South Africa by Dr Ron Clarke of Witwatersran5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070536event News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070467event A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070396event The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070342event The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070329event John Ayliff jr, missionary, private secretary of governor Sir George Grey and postmaster-general of Natal, dies on board the Da25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070320event The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070267event A group of forty German travel agents are robbed at gunpoint of their handbags in their bus at Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070187event Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila’s soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071039event Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), formed since June 1961 under leadership of Nelson Mandela, performs its first acts of sabotage by attac9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070923event Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070865event The UN Security Council chooses Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070801event Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069082event British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the grave of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Tombs1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069042event Forces of the British South Africa Company force Matabele King Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to flee his Great Place in Bulawayo1 Nov 2011✓

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