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E-0087566event Two explosions rock Windhoek. The first, in a Klein Windhoek butchery, kills one person and injures eighteen others. The second28 Jun 2012✓
E-0086311event The Rev. Andrew Murray, one of the first Scottish ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Graaff-Reinet.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086175event Prof B.B. Keet (89), one of the five final translators of the first Bible in Afrikaans, dies in Stellenbosch.15 Jun 2012–
E-0086174event Prof B.B. Keet (89), one of the five final translators of the first Bible in Afrikaans, dies in Stellenbosch.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086060event Tristam Burrell, one of the SA’s most-experienced paragliders, is electrocuted when his powered trike hits powerlines. His pass15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088435event Denmark decides to maintain sanctions against South Africa, making it the one European Community member to oppose easing trade13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088288event The Star reports that Bophuthatswana’s administration has decided not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-m13 Jul 2012✓
E-0085059event Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) contests the second democratic election, but performs badly and gets one seat in the Nati1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074059event In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA) concludes that this country was "one of10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079424event The second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in thirty-one of the Council’s forty elective seats16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076824event Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of SA’s greatest working-class martyrs, is arrested12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076255event Forty miners are trapped 2 400m underground after the earthquake at Stilfontein.  One miner died and another is still missing.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0012704event An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 6816 Mar 2011–
E-0092583event Member of UK Parliament Donald Anderson, one of the Labour Party’s spokesmen on foreign affairs, told a news conference after a27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092485event Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, generally known as "Onze Jan", dies in London. One of his various achievements was assisting in27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092483event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer Gen. P.A. Cronje shells Mafeking, causing only one casualty. After the bombardment, Silas Molemo, a spok27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092098event One of the biggest faction fights ever recorded on the Witwatersrand, starts as a canteen brawl.  Zulus, Shangaan, Chopis and27 Aug 2012✓
E-0089724event Jack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best-known plastic and reconstruction surgeons, is born in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090759event Rhodesian security police kill seven and wound one member of Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front. The fighting took place14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090753event Frederick Pine Theophilus (Fred) Struben (80), one of the discoverers of the Rand gold reef, dies in Devonshire, England.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0081904event Ten anti-apartheid demonstrators are arrested outside the South African embassy in London after a meeting marking one year of c13 Apr 2012✓
E-0082227event James Henry (Biddy) Anderson, SA cricket player in one test match against Australia (1902-1903), is born in Kimberley.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081127event One week after the death of Ahmed Sékou Touré in Guinea, Colonel Lansana Konte is declared president. Tour&eacute30 Mar 2012✓
E-0069663event A complete skeleton of a gorgonop, one of the most dangerous predatory carnivores that had inhabited the earth, is found near B11 Nov 2011✓
E-0071169event Two explosions in Bisho, the Ciskei’s capital, damage the Pick ‘n Pay shopping centre and a garage and injure one person.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071066event Taliep Petersen, one of South Africa’s most popular theatre personalities, is shot and killed execution style during an armed r9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071057event The ANC concludes its first national consultative conference held inside South Africa in thirty-one years. The Conference, whic9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069014event Matthews "Loop-en-Val" Motshwareteu, one of South Africa’s greatest middle-and long-distance athletes, is born in Sow1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073537event The Voortrekkers elect the first church council of the independent “Voortrekkerkerk”, with Sarel Cilliers as one of the deacons31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072699event Percy Peter Qoboza, editor of The World, named one of fifty "world press freedom heroes" by the International Press I16 Jan 2012✓

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