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E-0081007event The South African Naval Service is founded.   With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080996event The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079848event Mthabatha Seema PAC member disappears, last seen first in the company of a policeman at the Seshego magistrate’s court and late19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079840event 6000 Indians march in Durban to protest against the Asiatic Bill, and support the South African Indian Congress resolution for19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079830event Petrus van den Burg, organist of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria and composer, is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlan19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079820event The consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free-to-air television licence and e.tv started broadcastin19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079756event Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg resigned and is replaced by Trevor Manuel. Alec Erwin is promoted to Manuel’s post. Gill Marc19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079751event The World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa is launched in London, with the support of the19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079729event A bomb explodes in front of the post office in Krugersdorp, killing two security guards and injuring at least twenty people.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079714event Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079713event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079708event Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S16 Mar 2012✓
R-0084621archive Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged) 1 Jun 2012–
E-0070154event An argument between a man and his stepson about today’s rugby Test in which the Springboks beat Scotland, ends tragically when25 Nov 2011–
E-0070146event A consensus is reached following the fall-out between leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the co25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070135event Frans Lion Cachet (64), pastor in several parts of SA and various denominations, dies in Bergen-op-Zoom, the Netherlands.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070120event Cyril Ramaphosa, a lawyer and general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, is arrested in Lebowa, on charge of organ25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070119event Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070034event Forty-five mercenaries from South Africa under Colonel Mike Hoare land in Seychelles, attack the airport and cause heavy damage21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070012event President Thabo Mbeki and the minister of justice are facing a R550 000 civil damages claim after a convicted murderer kil21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069993event The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069980event Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069955event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069953event The families who survived the Thirstland Trek and made it to Angola, are naturalised as Portuguese subjects, assured of freedom21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069942event Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069913event Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069893event Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069853event Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, dies in Pretoria.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069713event Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069706event Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, is born at Uitvlucht, Pi11 Nov 2011✓

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