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E-0073373event Mattheus Uys Krige, author, dramatist, poet and five times winner of the “Akademieprys” award for translated literature, is bor31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073370event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Abraham Esau, Calvinia Coloured leader and martyr who aided the British Imperial cause, is brutally assault31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073356event President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela jointly accept the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Pri31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073348event Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073305event Dr Chris Albertyn (89), former chief executive of “Nasionale Pers” and editor of the Afrikaanse Kinderensiklopedie dies in Klei31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073278event Patricia Nora Zenani Fakude-Nkuna, managing director of Bohlabela Wheels and member of the Rural Women’s Initiative (1994-1999)31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073275event Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, community leader, member of the Cape City Council (1904-1940) and Cape Provincial Council (1914-1940),31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073252event The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073243event Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is broken. Nyasaland (now Malawi) moves towards independence under the leadership of Dr Ha31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073224event S. le Roux Marais (Stephanus), organist, teacher, pioneer of the art song (lieder) and composer of numerous songs in Afrikaans31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073121event In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073054event Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073042event The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072998event Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072982event Three leaders from the IFP, Frank Malalose, national chairman and the Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072962event South African politician and author of  "Jock of the Bushveld," Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, dies at the age of 69.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072932event Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death for leading the "Irish Commando" a20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072923event President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize. They received the prize on 3 February.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071837event Chief Buthelezi rejects the President’s call to resume participation in the constitution-making process and returns to the Cons6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071814event Andries Dreyer, missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071800event Seven people are killed and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers,6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071753event Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields, including the first Afrikaans films, is born in6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071644event Phatho, chief of the mixed XhosaHottentot (Khoi-Khoi) people the Gqunukwebe and other Xhosa chiefs attend a great gathering of14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071631event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071617event Louis Buys, chief director of disaster management at the department of provincial and local government, says the South African14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071610event The planning and programming divisional manager of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Mr Danie Schoeman, says that14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071564event Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071556event John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071549event Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071534event Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p14 Dec 2011✓

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