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E-0079588event Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079578event The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079540event Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079526event Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079506event Publication of declaration for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African Political Prisoners signed by over 4,016 Mar 2012✓
E-0079486event John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079446event Lambertus and Abraham, eldest sons of Jan van Riebeeck, leave with skipper Douwe Aukes for their uncle, Abraham Quevellerius in16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079342event Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg, editor of De Volksstem and founding member of the Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (Academy for Sci16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076886event Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076874event The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076852event The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076823event The artillery bombards the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square during the Rand Revolt and it falls to the government. Befo12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076791event In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076765event TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076745event The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076738event Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076734event ANC president Oliver Tambo and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076283event Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been5 Mar 2012–
E-0076276event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that a thorough inquiry into Transkei land claims has been made5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076251event Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076244event The Weekly Mail reports that, since the beginning of February 1990, thirty people have died in Bophuthatswana. Violence and sch5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076240event Proclamation R29 is gazetted, enabling Africans in towns on trust land to obtain full property rights, affecting and estimated5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076221event President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076196event Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074775event The borders of the Afrikaner ‘volkstaat’ and the territory’s constitution is unveiled at an open session of the Afrikaner Volks24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074713event Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074697event It is announced at a Convention (2-3 March) that the United Democratic Front is to end its activities and will formally disband24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074673event John Brebier, Presbyterian minister and a founder of the educational system in the Orange Free State, is born in Spurriemuir in24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074657event The Sowetan reports that Amos Boshomane, a shop steward of the Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa, wa24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074646event Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is  welcomed in Guinea who grants him a honourable asylum af24 Feb 2012✓

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