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E-0082566event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012✓
E-0082487event Sir Gilbraith Lowry Cole, governor of the Cape, is born. Sir Lowry’s Pass was built during his time of office.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082375event Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082328event Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world’s largest producer of AIDS drugs, announces it will reduce the price of its popular AI23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082293event Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082283event Eleven days after the killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the siege of the Libyan embassy ends and thirty Libyans (d23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082248event Winnie Mandela, former wife of President Mandela, is overwhelmingly re-elected as president of the ANC’s Women’s League by 65623 Apr 2012✓
E-0082237event WWII: North Africa: Following the fall of the Halfaya Pass, three columns of Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps have crossed the b23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082196event The Chief of Staff (Operations) says that the development of South Africa’s defence has made the country completely self-suffic23 Apr 2012–
E-0082171event The Chief of Staff (Operations) says that the development of South Africa’s defence has made the country completely self-suffic23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081503event Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081234event The PAC announces that Clarence Makwetu has been suspended as chairman of the party pending the outcome of a disciplinary heari30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081231event The first genocide trials begin in Kigali, Rwanda, against some of the 30 000 majority Hutus accused of killing Tutsis.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081100event Saul Mkheze, leader of a Black farming community, is shot dead during a protest meeting at Driefontein, 200 miles east of Johan30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081038event A silent procession of nearly 1000 people, led by religious leaders, file through the streets of Durban to express their opposi30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081022event JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081012event The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079714event Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079713event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079704event Mr Piet Clase, Minister of Education for Whites, announces that the government has decided to abandon the principle of segregat16 Mar 2012✓
R-0084621archive Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged) 1 Jun 2012–
E-0070176event At a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the ANC President, Oliver Tambo, d25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070141event Ansuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, author, pianist and amateur actress, and one of the first group of25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070140event The arrest of five people, detained under the Terrorism Act, coincides with the Security Police search of the Johannesburg head25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069992event Dr Jean Benjamin, Deputy Minister of Social Development in the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069962event Gen. R.C. Hiemstra opens the Castle of Good Hope military museum in Cape Town, reflecting various aspects of military history s21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069865event From this date the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) becomes a full portfolio of National Security under the Prime Minister who i21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069706event Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, is born at Uitvlucht, Pi11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069591event Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069569event Grintek of SA, Saab of Sweden and British aerospace sign a historic contract for supplying military equipment worth about R60 m11 Nov 2011✓

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