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E-0076225event Lt Tommy Rose covers the distance between South Africa and England in six days, six hours and fifty-seven minutes in a record f5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076213event A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076197event The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074665event Eight foreigners die in a shoot-out in a Ugandan game reserve as soldiers try to free fifteen tourists who were kidnapped by Rw24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074561event Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w24 Feb 2012✓
E-0092623event President Samora Machel of Mozambique is killed in an air crash in eastern South Africa shortly after 21:00. Thirty-four people27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092196event Anglo-Boer War 2: Sir George White, who arrived in Cape Town on 3 October and in Durban on 7 October, proceeds to Ladysmith, wh27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092194event Francis William Reitz, former president of the OFS and now Secretary of State in the ZAR, hands the ultimatum, which result in27 Aug 2012✓
E-0090657event Fear of civil war escalates in Lesotho on the second consecutive day of fighting between the police and soldiers in the streets14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090492event Lady Diana Spencer, the former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, is killed with her companion Dodi Fayed in a car accident in P14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090447event The government announces that units from the army and air force, as well as extra police, will be stationed in Johannesburg in14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090228event Mohammed Iqbal Shaik, activist and member of the Dolphin Unit of the MK involved in sabotage operations until 1988, is born in10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091508event The United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa, headed by Ms Angela King, is established to assist the parties in South Af23 Aug 2012–
E-0091499event The Rand Supreme Court rules that Blacks from the homelands can establish the right to reside permanently in towns in White Sou23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091260event Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin (57), secretary of the Orphan Chamber in Cape Town and collector of books and paintings, dies in Ca23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090064event Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta (born Kamau Johnstone on 20 October 1891) dies in office in Mombasa. He is succeeded by his vice10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090039event The British settlement in Sierra Leone is founded. Britain says it is to provide a home in Africa for freed slaves and homeless10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089906event The father of Rosalind Ballingall, who got lost in the Knysna forest, arrives from Johannesburg to assist in the search for his10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089880event Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089869event In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite of abho10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089765event Herero Revolt: Von Estorff and Von der Heyde defeat the Ovaherero in the battle of Omatupa and prevent them from escaping in a10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091059event Herero Revolt: Von Estorff and Von der Heyde defeat the Ovaherero in the battle of Omatupa and prevent them from escaping in a14 Aug 2012–
E-0091058event Herero Revolt: Von Estorff and Von der Heyde defeat the Ovaherero in the battle of Omatupa and prevent them from escaping in a14 Aug 2012–
E-0091023event On the eve of the election in South West Africa (Namibia), the Swapo leader Sam Nujoma arrives in Windhoek, after nearly thirty14 Aug 2012–
E-0091022event On the eve of the election in South West Africa (Namibia), the Swapo leader Sam Nujoma arrives in Windhoek, after nearly thirty14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090741event The biggest gathering of world leaders in history takes place at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York 150 heads of14 Aug 2012–
E-0090700event At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,14 Aug 2012✓
E-0092817event At least twenty-five people are reported to have died in violence between members of the United Democratic Party and Inkatha in28 Aug 2012✓
E-0083902event The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River25 May 2012✓
E-0083879event Dr. Milton Obote, deposed as Uganda’s president by Idi Amin in 1971, returns home from exile. He regains the presidency in Dece25 May 2012✓

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