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E-0083606event Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af18 May 2012✓
E-0083317event Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S14 May 2012✓
E-0083144event A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven. 11 May 2012✓
E-0083086event The Prime Minister announces that eight very important Western intelligence agents, held by the Soviet Union, and one South Afr11 May 2012–
E-0082806event Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b7 May 2012✓
E-0082128event Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa’s United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida23 Apr 2012✓
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-0069643event The Democratic Party officially comes into being at a one-day conference in Johannesburg attended by some 200 delegates from th11 Nov 2011✓
E-0071004event Mercenary coup in Comoros gives up power after twenty-one days. The mercenary leader and ex-presidential bodyguard, Bob Denard,9 Dec 2011–
E-0070984event The Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court. One is reprieved by Lord Charles Somerset, the other, Cornel9 Dec 2011✓
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-0070854event Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073628event The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.31 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-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-0073204event President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu31 Jan 2012✓
R-0086708archive Response by President Nelson Mandela to the 1994 Peace Lecture of the WCRP (South African Chapter) 7 August 199427 Jun 2012–
R-0098008archive The Memoirs of Paul Kruger, Chapter 12, (On the outbreak of war and the barbarity of the English) 16 Jul 2014–
R-0072160archive Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires13 Jan 2012–
E-0013521event The first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.16 Mar 2011✓
E-0069334event One-day general strike takes place in Port Elizabeth to protest police attacks in Kimberley and East London which resulted in t7 Nov 2011✓
E-0093019event James Thompson Bain, Scottish engineer, labour leader and editor who was one of the most militant labour leaders during the 19128 Aug 2012✓
E-0092950event Forty-five African leaders (and one Indian) from South Africa meet in Lobatsi, Bechuanaland (27-28 October), to make plans to s28 Aug 2012–
E-0087824event Sixty-one White South Africans, mainly from the Afrikaans community, meet the ANC in Dakar (9-12 July), in search of a democrat6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087741event Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens6 Jul 2012✓
E-0089579event Johannes Jacobus Janse (Lang Hans) van Rensburg, leader of one of the early Voortrekker treks,  is born at the Sundays River,31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089469event In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country’s history, women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to pres31 Jul 2012✓
E-0086118event Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086040event Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, State President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei, one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088930event An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg.  One pers20 Jul 2012✓

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