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E-0082839event Sir Howard Carter, English archaeologist who discovered the grave of Tutankamen in Egypt, is born.7 May 2012✓
E-0082744event An ILO tripartite Conference on Action Against Apartheid, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 3-6 May, ends.7 May 2012✓
E-0082601event Nationalist Party wins three by-elections with a larger majority than in the 1958 general election.3 May 2012✓
E-0082539event Natal is proclaimed a British colony. This date is given as 12 May in another source.3 May 2012✓
E-0082500event France declares its support for British interests in the Congo rather than those of Belgium.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082491event Willem Johannes Leyds, attorney-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is born in Java.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082301event The English fleet destroys pirate fleet of Bey of Tunis and releases prisoners in Algiers.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082279event Police confront some 10,000 students demonstrating against rent increases in Soweto and violence ensues.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082260event Dr Hendrik Johannes van Eck, chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation, is born in Kimberley.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082191event Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082166event Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081451event Ten residents are killed in Dudu, Natal South Coast, when unknown gunmen attack the area.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081449event Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko declares a nationwide state of emergency in response to rebel advances.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081153event Barend Hendrik Janse van Rensburg (Ben) (80), founder of the War Museum in Bloemfontein, dies.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081085event Daniël Francois du Toit, founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners, dies in Paarl.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081020event John Harris, who was found guilty of planting a bomb in the Johannesburg station, is executed.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080998event The Midlands Ladies’ Seminary, forerunner of the College of Education, is founded in Graaff-Reinet.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079832event John Stephen Curlewis, chief judge of the appeal court (1936-1938), is born in Paarl.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079782event Henry Selby Msimang, interpreter, clerk, journalist, farm manager and especially politician, dies in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg19 Mar 2012✓
R-0084609archive ’The Failure of the Natives’ representative council’, Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 19461 Jun 2012–
E-0070170event Jordan’s Prime Minister Wasfi Tell is assassinated while attending an Arab conference in Cairo, Egypt.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070166event Clements Kadalie (adopted name of Lameck Koniwaka Kadali Muwamba), trade unionist, dies in East London.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070129event Celebrated South African poet Sheila Cussons dies in Cape Town at the age of 82.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070123event Eleven residents are killed in a night attack on Mandela View squatter camp, Katlehong, East Rand.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069945event Abdelkader Hachani, a moderate leader of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front, is fatally shot in Algiers.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069704event Mpande, Zulu chief and half-brother of Dingane, dies at his kraal Nodwengu in Zululand. 11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069676event Prof. F.J. Labuschagne, Afrikaans linguist and lector at the Potchefstroom University, is born in Ventersdorp.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069644event A ban on the publication of military involvements in Angola is imposed on South African newspapers.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069614event British newspapers report that South African mercenaries are helping UNITA against the MPLA in Angola.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070458event Sir Redvers Henry Buller, British general during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in Devon, England.5 Dec 2011✓

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