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E-0082847event Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise7 May 2012✓
E-0082835event Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba7 May 2012✓
E-0082804event Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania.  His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined7 May 2012✓
E-0082795event Ms Stella Sigcau, Xhosa princess, third premier of Transkei for three months and minister of Public Works, dies of heart failur7 May 2012–
E-0082748event A White Paper of the Departments of Justice and of Correctional Services says South Africa has one of the highest prison popula7 May 2012✓
E-0082734event The government announces that its aim is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible.7 May 2012✓
E-0082714event Lady Anne Barnard (75), wife of colonial secretary Andrew Barnard and a chronicler of daily life in the colony in a series of l7 May 2012✓
E-0082668event The terms under which the alliance between COSATU, the SACP and the ANC should work together to dismantle apartheid, decided on3 May 2012✓
E-0082656event Tallal Khaled Kaddourah and Safik Hussein el-Anda, under death sentence in Greece for their part in the 5 August terrorist atta3 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 2012✓
E-0082600event Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po3 May 2012✓
E-0082590event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,3 May 2012✓
E-0082499event Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082496event N.C. (Klasie) Havenga, private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog and minister of finance in Dr. Malan’s cabinet, is born in Faur30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082442event Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres30 Apr 2012–
E-0082368event Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082354event The elections result in the return to power, with a slightly reduced majority, of the National Party and notable gains for the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082325event Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082319event Several University of Cape Town students are injured and eighteen arrested during a 1000-strong picket in De Waal Drive in Cape23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082317event The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, orders the Minister of Law and Order, Le Grange, to investigate the activities of the Afrikaner23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082284event Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082236event WWII: East Africa: The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, is captured by Gener23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082222event Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, arriving in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of P23 Apr 2012–
E-0082213event Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, arriving in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of P23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082190event General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the23 Apr 2012–
E-0082165event General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082144event The Constitution Bill is given its first reading and is referred back to the Constitutional Committee for amendments to be cons23 Apr 2012–
E-0082143event The Constitution Bill is given its first reading and is referred back to the Constitutional Committee for amendments to be cons23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082136event Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.23 Apr 2012–

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