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E-0082661event Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w3 May 2012✓
E-0082631event The Minister for Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that relevant urban Black leaders will be consulted3 May 2012✓
E-0082565event Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.3 May 2012✓
E-0082559event The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.3 May 2012✓
E-0082543event Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.3 May 2012✓
E-0082514event Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082511event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082489event João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082344event The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082332event Peace is established between the Cape government and the Xhosa under King Hintsa, ending the Sixth Frontier War.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082311event Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082274event Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082257event Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She cam23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082246event South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections (26-29 April) for the national assembly and provincial parliaments start.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082228event Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082197event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012–
E-0082183event The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082172event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082131event Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces in Parliament that South Africa and Mozambique are to establish joint operational centre23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082094event A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and23 Apr 2012–
E-0082088event Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af23 Apr 2012–
E-0081531event Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081529event C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081521event Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081518event Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081486event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081474event The home match between Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius, ends in a tie with no goals scored. 5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081236event The amnesty commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses applications for amnesty of a further seventy-nine AN30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081232event Thousands of Liberians flee their homes amid fierce fighting between government troops and members of an ethnic faction.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081165event Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran30 Mar 2012✓

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