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E-0089975event The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089871event Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.10 Aug 2012–
E-0089870event Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089709event Rebels fighting Congolese President Laurent Kabila capture a power transformer in western Congo, sending the capital, Kinshasa,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091038event An Olympic opening ceremony, in which the South African team takes part, dazzle downtown Sydney, Australia.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091029event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012–
E-0091028event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090992event A German photographer, Christian Hohmann (36), dies in a KwaZulu nature reserve when an elephant cow gores him.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090880event Dr Gerrit Viljoen, first rector of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), is born in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090804event Twenty-three IFP supporters die in Thokoza when three gunmen open fire on an IFP march.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084074event A Legislative Assembly is instituted in the Venda homeland, with partial self-government granted on 1 Feb. 1973.25 May 2012✓
E-0083940event Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria’s first civilian president in fifteen years, ending a string of disastrous military regimes.25 May 2012✓
E-0083866event Lamar Crowson, later professor at the South African College of Music, is born in Florida, USA.25 May 2012✓
E-0082035event Dr Abraham J. van der Merwe (81), chairman of the Van Riebeeck fête committee in 1952, dies.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081910event Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urges Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081895event The South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded in Windhoek with Sam Nujoma as leader.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081889event New constitution officially announced by King Faud I in Egypt. News 24 gives date as 20 April.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081885event Bambatha Rebellion:Over 7,000 British troops are called out to quell Zulu aggression in Natal.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081815event Rudolph (Duimpie) Opperman, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA), dies in Johannesburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081785event The first two apples are picked in the Company’s Garden. They are small and rather tart.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081762event Thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight school children, die in a bus accident near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081711event A second earthquake hits Tulbach, six months after the first one in which nine people were killed.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083536event Jacobus Pieter Verster, chief of the South African Air Force (1967-1975), is born in Boksburg.18 May 2012✓
E-0083515event The governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy wins the election in Lesotho with Pakalitha Mosisili as premier.18 May 2012✓
E-0083397event French troops have occupied the bilad al-siba, an under-populated desert region in southern Morocco.18 May 2012✓
E-0083389event Saul Solomon, printer who represented Cape Town in the Cape parliament, is born on St Helena.18 May 2012✓
E-0083343event Joachim A. van Plettenberg is sworn in as governor of the Cape after Ryk Tulbach passed away.14 May 2012–
E-0083336event Roelf Meyer announces his resignation as leader of the NP in Gauteng and member of parliament.14 May 2012✓
E-0083269event Frederik Christiaan Ludolph Bosman, founder member of several Afrikaans cultural organisations, is born in Kuils River.14 May 2012✓
E-0083257event Joseph "Sepp" Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, announces in Zürich, Switzerland, that Sout14 May 2012✓

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