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E-0083310event The Advocate General Bill is introduced by L. Muller, Minister of Transport, against strong opposition from the Progressive Fed14 May 2012✓
E-0083304event A committee of inquiry appointed by the Administrators of Natal and the Cape Province, declares that East Griqualand (claimed b14 May 2012✓
E-0083289event Dr. Jan Steytler, leader of the Progressive Party, launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill14 May 2012✓
E-0083272event The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) resolves to declare war on Chief Sekhukhune. Presiden14 May 2012✓
E-0083210event Patrick Laurence, journalist from the Star, was charged with contravening the Suppression of Communism Act by publishing a stat11 May 2012✓
E-0083097event The chairman of a PAC disciplinary committee announces that former party President Clarence Makwetu has been expelled from the11 May 2012✓
E-0082750event Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali applauds the election process in South Africa as a peaceful expression of the people’s7 May 2012✓
E-0082737event The Advocate-General’s report confirms that the Herstigte Nasionale Party’s office telephones have been illegally tapped and ca7 May 2012✓
E-0082718event Pres. Paul Kruger lays the foundation stone of the ‘Staatsgebou van die ZAR’ (Raadsaal)on Church Square, Pretoria.7 May 2012✓
E-0082662event Capital Media (Pty) Ltd is founded and that makes the publication of the first Rekord/Record newspaper possible.3 May 2012✓
E-0082595event The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA.   They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.3 May 2012✓
E-0082543event Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.3 May 2012✓
E-0082540event The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshesh at Wittebergen, near Winburg, after the first Basuto war.3 May 2012✓
E-0082518event International Workers’ Day commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. Although May Day has been30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082514event Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082512event The first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. Its recommendations include registration of Black t30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082511event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082457event The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into30 Apr 2012–
E-0082383event The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082362event An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082344event The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.23 Apr 2012✓
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-0081525event J.H. Conradie, Administrator of the Cape Province, lays the corner stone of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.5 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-0081413event Empire-builder Cecil John Rhodes is buried at the World’s View in the Matopo Hills, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081196event Prof. Nic Wiehahn, chairman of several commissions, notably the commission that recommended the legalising of Black labour unio30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081160event Jan van Riebeeck urged by the Vryburgers (Free Burghers), starts peace negotiations with the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi group).30 Mar 2012✓

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