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E-0082909event The European Union, South Africa’s greatest trading partner, says it plans to invest about US$ 210 million in the country in 197 May 2012–
E-0082472event Prince James Mahlangu is elected as new chief minister of KwaNdebele after a motion of no confidence in Mr Mabena was passed in30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082281event The Rand daily Mail reports that ninety-six White soldiers walked out of a camp in April in protest against alleged poor food a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082243event The Rajab brothers opens their second cinema, the Shiraz. The cinema was housed in the new Rajab Centre in Victoria Street, Dur23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082182event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082157event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081500event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081443event An explosion set off in an outdoor bazaar in Cairo’s Old City kills two tourists and wounds at least 19 other people.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081230event The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081152event Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079775event Justice Rumpff finds Sisulu and other accused not guilty on a charge of High Treason, in the special court in Pretoria They are19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070111event A week of violence in Ciskei continues in which it is officially estimated that 200 huts have been burned. The Botha Sigcau Hig25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069989event The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069976event Police find 46kg of cocaine worth R21 million in a box in the cargo section of Johannesburg International Airport. A man with a21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069920event Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069915event Instructions are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069549event Anna E. Bliss and Abbie P. Ferguson arrive in Cape Town by boat from New York to start the Huguenot College in Paarl, CC.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070623event Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070615event Leopoldville is founded as a trading post by H.M. Stanley and named Leopoldville in honour of King Leopold II of Belgium. In 195 Dec 2011✓
E-0070204event Eleven more people are sentenced to death for their part in Nigerian political riots in March, bringing the number up to forty-25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070190event At least forty-six people are injured when a pipe bomb explodes in the packed St Elmo restaurant in Camps Bay, Cape Town.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071224event In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070868event Matthews Mapumolo, ANC member, dies in police custody after he was accosted at home in Swaziland by a group of armed men, shot,9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073492event In a meeting between Pres. Mbeki and Pres. Hu Jintao of China in the Union Buildings, Pretoria, the two leaders agree to intens31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073474event Israelis sink a 700-ton Egyptian minelayer in the Gulf of Suez in reprisal for the sinking of two Israeli ships at Elath. 31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073458event William Ayliff is appointed minister of “Bantu Affairs” in the Cape Colony in the first cabinet of Sir John Gordon Sprigg. He h31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071255event Thomas Adolf Florin (32) is found guilty in Windhoek, Namibia, on the murder of his wife, Monika, in Swakopmund. He is sentence14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073735event The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073552event Mozambique stresses its continued support for the ANC in a statement made at the funeral of twelve ANC members killed in the So31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072902event Groot Constantia, which shipped wine to Napoleon in exile on the island of St Helena until his death in 1821, concludes another20 Jan 2012✓

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