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E-0084016event South Africa is declared a republic, independent and outside the Commonwealth. C.R. Swart, the former Governor-General, is swor25 May 2012✓
E-0083959event The leader of the Basutoland National Party, Chief Leabua Jonathan, indicates that Basutoland is so economically dependent on S25 May 2012✓
E-0083918event The first consignment of 10 000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives from London at Cape Town with the Carnarvon Castle .25 May 2012✓
E-0083911event The Rev. Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen, founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, is born in Cape Town.25 May 2012✓
E-0083883event SA’s Minister of Development Aid Gerrit Viljoen, announces that following allegations about the mismanagement of funds in the L25 May 2012✓
E-0083854event A week after sweeping into the city, President Laurent Kabila bans political activity and demonstrations in Kinshasa, the DRC c25 May 2012✓
E-0083835event The Algerian vice-president, Ali Chekkal, is assassinated by Algerian Nationalists whilst attending the French football cup fin25 May 2012✓
E-0081976event Marius Philip Olivier Burgers, one of the first full-time broadcasters of the ‘Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie’ (Afrikaans st23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081903event Ugandan prime minister Dr Samson Kisekka appeals to the people to help clean up Kampala, the capital city.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081868event The South African Police Force stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffer casualties in clashes with ‘terrorists’13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081819event The ‘Volksraad’ of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek suspends Stephanus Schoeman as acting state president because of neglect of13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081757event The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081735event The Katanga Company is formed in Brussels to exploit copper deposits in the Katanga area of Central Africa.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081719event Desmond Tutu is selected as the archbishop of Cape Town, head of the Anglican Church of South Africa.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081718event Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081700event Anglo-Boer War 2: The first Boer prisoners of war arrive at St Helena, on board of the Milwaukee.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081649event The Rev. Nomthandazo Purity Malinga, bishop of The Methodist Church of Southern Africa, is born in Ixopo, Natal.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081638event Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt reaches Lourenço Marques (Maputo) after setting out from the Zoutpansberg in August of the5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081635event Following the discovery of coelacanths in Jesser Canyon off Sodwana Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, in October 2000, the multidisciplinary5 Apr 2012–
E-0081630event Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081609event J.H. Conradie, Administrator of the Cape Province, lays the corner stone of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081551event Following the discovery of coelacanths in Jesser Canyon off Sodwana Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, in October 2000, the multidisciplinary5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081546event Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083661event South Africa is represented, for the first time, officially at a meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) w18 May 2012✓
E-0083612event A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals.18 May 2012–
E-0083611event A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals.18 May 2012✓
E-0083605event Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the South African Communist Party and compositor of the communist newspa18 May 2012✓
E-0083497event Ex-president Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria.18 May 2012✓
E-0083439event Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the Orange Free State. Lord Roberts changes the name to Orange River Colony.18 May 2012✓
E-0083427event Human rights organisation Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 118 May 2012✓

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