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E-0082290event United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082197event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012–
E-0082183event The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082172event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081465event Leaders of the Neo-Destour (New Constitutional) Party, the Tunisian nationalist movement, are arrested after riots in Tunis.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081151event Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081036event The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African National Students’ Congress (Sansco) launch a campai30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081004event The Union Weather Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079841event Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079827event Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079779event Chief Minister Cedric Phatudi of Lebowa signs the ‘Seshego Declaration’ with the United Party Transvaal leader, Harry Schwarz a19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070149event In a hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, leaders of the UDF distance themselves from Winnie Madikizela-Mand25 Nov 2011–
E-0070026event General Jan Smuts, SA premier, makes a notable speech to members of the British parliament, suggesting that the responsibility21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070019event Andries Pretorius is appointed Commandant-General of the Voortrekkers, to lead a commando two days later against the Zulu.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069879event Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first chairperson21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069666event The National Arts Council (NAC) launches the National Craft Development Initiative as part of its National Development Strategy11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069625event The ANC suspends national assembly chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing into sexual harassm11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069602event King Farouk, Egypt, demands the "total and immediate evacuation" of all British troops from the Suez Canal Zone.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069596event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Sprinkaansnek is fought, with General Philip Botha forcing a passage through the neck.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070544event Anglo-Boer War 2: President Paul Kruger of the ZAR and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession in the Netherlands.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070516event Justice Kees van Dijkhorst of the Pretoria Supreme Court sentences the eleven "Delmas Treason Trialists" he had convi5 Dec 2011✓
E-0071177event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Kitchener memorandum concerning the implementation of concentration camps for Boer women and children is14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070993event The General Assembly strongly disapproves SA policy of Apartheid and requests the Secretary-General to establish a United Natio9 Dec 2011–
E-0070946event Oliver Tambo, President of the ANC, returns to South Africa after having fled the country thirty years ago.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070831event President Mandela signs the new Constitution, guaranteeing equal rights to all races. It incorporates the broad principles of t9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069022event The South African Indian Council (SAIC) unanimously rejects the government’s proposed new constitution, after two days of lengt1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073999event Jan Daniël Cilliers, poet under the pseudonym “Kleinjan”, is born on a farm in the vicinity of Wellington, CC.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073637event The Republican US President Ronald Reagan accepts that the policy of constructive engagement has failed. He announces a change31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073563event In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073521event Gen. Bantu Holomisa announces the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, South African Communist Party, South African Students’ Organisatio31 Jan 2012✓

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