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E-0074190event Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.)17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074173event Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074158event President Leon M’ba is restored to power in Gabon by French troops, following an attempted coup led by Jean-Hilaire Aubume.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079662event The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079629event Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079605event The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079575event The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079563event Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079544event In the homeland of Ciskei, a mutiny by police and defence forces led to the resignation of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. The TEC immedi16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079529event Lionel Ronald Louw, social worker and ordained minister of the Community of Faith is born in Worcester. He was delegate to seve16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079498event South Africa is informed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it may not re-apply to join the world sporting body.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079480event UK Prime Minister Tony Blair thanks President Nelson Mandela by telephone for his help in persuading Libya to hand over two sus16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079401event The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079365event More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076853event Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for "blasphemous libels on Cape ladies" and is sentenced to beg thei12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076818event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Salisbury, British premier, rejects the offer of Pres. McKinley of America to act as mediator in the war12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076793event In response to a question in Parliament Dr Van Niekerk, minister of health, says that thirty-seven cases of AIDS have been diag12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076774event Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076726event In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a documented report on the low wages paid to Black workers12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076281event The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr5 Mar 2012–
E-0076279event The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft5 Mar 2012–
E-0076201event Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074782event The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074743event Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k24 Feb 2012–
E-0074739event The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i24 Feb 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-0074630event The first slave, Abraham, a stowaway from Batavia, arrives in Table Bay aboard the Malacca. He is made to work for the company24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074609event An 18-seater plane, owned by Bop Air and chartered to Comair, explodes in mid-air near Germiston, killing all seventeen people24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074576event The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074574event The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft24 Feb 2012✓

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