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E-0070905event Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia9 Dec 2011–
E-0070819event American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070816event Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069066event Relief officials scramble to find a way to bring aid to a million Rwandan Hutu refugees engulfed in a rebellion in eastern Zair1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069037event The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073496event Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073490event Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic priest accused of participating in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsi by ethnic Hutu in Rwanda, sur31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073787event In response to a question in parliament, the minister of education and development aid, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, said that 917 school31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073629event Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073596event In Cape Town the heaviest possible sentence in the South African Justice system is imposed on the Niewoudtville murder gang –31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073536event A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072906event Cetewayo’s impis wipe out British troops at Isandhlwana in one of the worst disasters in British military history, stabbing 12720 Jan 2012✓
E-0072901event A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072889event A spokesman for the Lutheran World Federation, meeting in emergency session in Geneva, says there are now twenty-one people det20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073352event The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073181event David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073000event Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a meeting with President P.W. Botha in the beginning of 19820 Jan 2012✓
E-0072945event The independent Human Rights Committee (HRC) reports that 837 people have been killed in political violence in 1995 compared to20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071830event Obed Amon Mwanza of Zimbabwe is killed and six members of the ANC injured in a car bomb explosion in Bulawayo.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071826event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Chief Jonathan of Lesotho meet in Cape Town. A joint statement emphasises their belief in peace6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071754event The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 19256 Jan 2012✓
E-0071662event The Acting General-Secretary of the Lutheran Church in South Africa claims that T. Muofhe, a Lutheran elder, has died in custod14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071550event Major General Bantu Holomisa, who became head of a military state in Transkei after a coup in December 1987, lifts martial law14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071457event Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071454event Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071424event Adam Kok III (64), Griqua chief, dies in Griqualand East. Date is given as 31 December 1875 in another source.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071407event The first private broadcasting station in South Africa is put up by the South African Railways in Johannesburg. The Scientific14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071307event Ex-Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0011823event Shaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban16 Mar 2011✓
B-0121674biography Anton Edward Rupert1916-2006–

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