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E-0089797event A 32-year-old man, Elvis Ramoloyi, is beaten to death by a mob after he wounded two people in an apparent road rage incident in10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089712event Libya and families of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland sign an agreement to pay as muc10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091099event A 32-year-old man, Elvis Ramoloyi, is beaten to death by a mob after he wounded two people in an apparent road rage incident in14 Aug 2012–
E-0091048event Absa Bank hands an old warrant of arrest for Nelson Mandela, dated May 18, 1961, to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090702event Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya rejects an offer by the USA and England to try the two Pan-Am Lockerbie suspects in the Netherlan14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084067event Mzolisi Goodman Diliza, businessman and Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of SA, is born. He was the first Black to be ap25 May 2012✓
E-0083916event Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn, too weak to leave his tent, resigns because of poor health and Gen. C.R. de Wet is appointe25 May 2012✓
E-0082069event Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im23 Apr 2012–
E-0082015event Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081867event The Boeing 707 Pretoria of SAA crashes just after take off from the Windhoek airport en route to London with 122 people on boar13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081776event At a summit meeting in Lusaka (14-16 April) the leaders of East and Central African States on 16 April 1969 agree to issue the13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083135event A female teacher is attacked by two robbers on her way to school and is saved by more than 100 pupils from Orlando North Second11 May 2012–
E-0082841event The Zulu chiefs are informed that their land has been annexed to the British Empire.   This date is given as 19 May in anothe7 May 2012✓
E-0082538event Gov. George Napier wants to cut off the Voortrekkers from the harbour in Port Natal and sends Capt. Smith with 125 men by land3 May 2012✓
E-0081444event An amount of R1.3m is paid out in compensation to thirty-two South African seamen who lost fingers as a result of frostbite inc5 Apr 2012✓
E-0079760event Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer and settler  who was a member of an expedition to the Zulu chief Shaka in the 1820s, is born in Lo19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079752event All twenty-three mineworkers in a lift of the Vaal Reefs gold mine are killed when they plunge more that two km to the bottom.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069626event The Suez Canal in Egypt, which has taken ten years to build, is formally opened.  Date is given as 16th in some sources.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070419event Sir David Baird, British general in command of the force sent to occupy the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and later acting governor5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070282event Col. J.F. Jordaan of the SA force captures Gen. Christiaan de Wet, on his way to German South West Africa at Waterbury, near Vr25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071044event Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) is formed to "hit back by all means within our power in defence of our people, our future and our fr9 Dec 2011–
E-0073696event Hintsa, chief of the Xhosa, is shot, while allegedly trying to escape from the British forces at the start of the 6th frontier31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073592event Oupa Gqozo, head of the Ciskei, claims to have put down the second coup attempt in the space of two weeks, with the assistance31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072710event Mr Sol Kerzner admits in an affidavit to the Harms Commission that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Mat16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073161event Paul Emile Rossouw, the first athlete in the world to jump higher than 2.13 m at the age of 16, is born in Springs.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0072987event WWI: At the end of the war, the Paris Peace Conference accepts the proposal to create the League of Nations. The League was eve20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072943event Patrick Dakuse (36) is shot dead by police after he allegedly tried to prime a hand grenade from an arms cache that he had take20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071577event What appears to be a power failure brings down a ten-year-old Boeing 737 shortly after take-off from the Red Sea resort of Shar14 Dec 2011–
E-0071356event American Max Conrad sets a new world non-stop-flight record with his 7,878 mile journey from Cape Town, South Africa, to St Pe14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071335event Comic Relief is launched live on BBC ONE from a refugee camp in Safawa, Sudan, in response to the African famine. As well as do14 Dec 2011✓

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