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U-0098051event Book Launch: Brothers in War and Peace Abraham and Constand Viljoen and the Birth of the New South Africa25 Jul 2014–
R-0093609archive For their Triumphs and for their Fears: Women in apartheid South Africa by Hilda Bernstein, August 1975, South Africa12 Sep 2012–
E-0085059event Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) contests the second democratic election, but performs badly and gets one seat in the Nati1 Jun 2012✓
E-0085058event In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, lawyers for the NP demand an unconditional apology from chairman Desmon1 Jun 2012✓
E-0085041event Student protest erupts into violence outside St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Force is used to dispel demonstrators. Kalle1 Jun 2012–
E-0085020event Jacob Ludwig Döhne (67), missionary of the Berlin Bible Society and translator of the New Testament in Zulu, dies.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0085009event Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084953event Balthazar Johannes Vorster, non-executive president of South Africa, resigns after only eight months in office (he had previous1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084859event In response to Israel’s seizure of Gaza, Egypt closes the Suez Canal and breaks diplomatic ties with the west.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084836event During a sitting in Boksburg, the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) reaches a compromise regarding the position of gays.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084824event Abel Molokwane (31), executive member of Brits Action Committee, is shot dead in Oukasie, Western Transvaal by unknown gunmen.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084819event The moderator of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Professor Johan Heyns, tells a conference in Harare that the NGK no longer1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084815event The Chief Executive Councillor of Kwazulu, Chief Buthelezi, condemns plans to consolidate Zululand in terms of the 1936 Trust a1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084779event South Africa officially refuses an invitation to send representatives to an international seminar on apartheid, to be held in B1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074531event Prussian nobility found the Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) to spread Christianity. The Society was active in most African coun17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074524event Voters in Burundi overwhelmingly approve a new power-sharing constitution aimed at bringing to a final end an eleven-year civil17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074486event Nigeria elects General Olusegun Obasanjo in the first presidential elections after fifteen years of military rule, but the resu17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074470event Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074462event Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074375event Seventeen anti-apartheid organisations are restricted in terms of section 6 of the Public Safety Act, amongst them the Azanian17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074360event Edenburg is established in the Orange Free State as a church village. The Volksraad granted application for recognition as a to17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074349event The UN’s Human Rights Commission adopts a resolution backing the armed struggle to eliminate apartheid in South Africa. Only Br17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074272event WW1: Battle of Verdun in France begins with a massive German artillery bombardment.   It is the longest and bloodiest battle17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074258event A former president of the Eastern Cape Agricultural Union, Fred Pettit, is stabbed to death in his house near Queenstown.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074178event Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, is charged with concealing information about a failed coup.   In June, the ch17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074091event The Harms Commission, instituted to inquire into unlawful acts by the security forces, starts hearing evidence in the Nederduit10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074061event It is announced that the IEC has hired 10,300 observers to monitor the first democratic election in April.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074059event In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA) concludes that this country was "one of10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074057event The Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa decides to maintain sanctions until promises of reform in South Africa are carrie10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074052event Twenty people are killed and 155 suffer injuries and burns in a collision between a train and petrol tanker near Johannesburg.10 Feb 2012✓

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