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E-0082644event France’s Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena. (BBC history)3 May 2012–
E-0082620event Egyptian nationalists gain power in the first elections since Farouk succeeded to the throne.3 May 2012✓
E-0082589event Petrus Johannes Lemmer, composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal.3 May 2012✓
E-0082545event Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic, political activist and ‘listed’ communist, is born in Johannesburg.3 May 2012–
E-0082544event Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic, political activist and ‘listed’ communist, is born in Johannesburg.3 May 2012✓
E-0082339event Election for the first legislative assembly under responsible government is held in Southern Rhodesia. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082333event Maria Wilman, geologist and botanist of international repute, is born in Beaufort West, CC.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082308event The first football FA-cup final match is played in the Wembley Stadium, London.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082291event The Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) boycotts the first democratic general election in South Africa.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082276event Charles Berman, mine medical officer and expert on primary liver cancer, dies in Johannesburg.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082219event Senior members of the Zulu royal family are attacked in a royal residence near Durban.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082215event The beginning of a bombing campaign marks last day of White rule in South Africa.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082210event Senior members of the Zulu royal family are attacked in a royal residence near Durban.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082206event The beginning of a bombing campaign marks last day of White rule in South Africa.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082082event A group of academics founds the ‘Afrikaans-Duitse Kultuurunie’ (Afrikaans-Deutsche Kultur-Gemeinschaft) in Pretoria.23 Apr 2012–
E-0081476event Laura Rautenbach (66), sculptor of several monuments and busts, dies of cancer in Bloemfontein.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081229event The ANC dismisses proposals to postpone elections in the Empangeni region of KwaZulu-Natal.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081223event P.W. Botha announces that he will resign after the forthcoming election in South Africa.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081173event The Van Riebeeck school hostel, built by the Afrikaans community in Kenya, is inaugurated.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081041event South Africa reports major clashes with guerrillas in Namibia on eve of cease-fire.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081015event The African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress is banned in South Africa.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079791event Thousands of Rwandan refugees fleeing violence in Burundi begin a two-day trek toward Tanzania.   19 Mar 2012–
E-0079790event Thousands of Rwandan refugees fleeing violence in Burundi begin a two-day trek toward Tanzania.   19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079755event Nineteen Zulus are killed during a march at Shell House, ANC head office in Johannesburg.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079737event Frans Reinhard Bresler (58), magistrate in Graaff-Reinet, commits suicide during an embezzlement investigation.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079718event Police kill fourteen people when peasants protest against enforced cattle culling in Witzieshoek, OFS.16 Mar 2012✓
R-0084611archive Part Two: Schedule of documents | The Soul of a Nation: Constitution Making in South Africa1 Jun 2012–
E-0070158event Johannes Hendricus Meiring Beck, Cape politician, composer and physician, is born in Worcester, CC.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070114event Black Affairs Administration Act No 45, providing for Black self-government in townships commences.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069999event Ian Smith announces that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia.21 Nov 2011✓

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