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E-0090458event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Commandant Botha demotes Assistant Commandant-General Tobias Smuts because of his actions at Bremersdorp.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091586event Young physicist of Switzerland, Einstein publishes his daring new theory, known as the special theory of relativity23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091316event Political assassination: Joseph Twala (35), ANC official, is shot dead at his girlfriend’s home in Mbayi, Natal.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091315event Political assassination: Joseph Twala (35), ANC official, is shot dead at his girlfriend’s home in Mbayi, Natal.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091271event Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations (UN) Secretary General, dies when his plane crashes under mysterious circumstances near Ndola23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090094event Mohandas Gandhi is released from Poona jail after he nearly lost his life while on a hunger strike.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089927event President Nelson Mandela makes a major policy speech in Parliament to mark his first 100 days as president.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089784event South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091086event South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n14 Aug 2012–
E-0081631event Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081547event Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083089event Former Transkeian President Kaiser Matanzima is served with a banning order by his brother George, the Prime Minister.11 May 2012✓
E-0082822event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that his government accepts the recommendations of the Schlebusch Commission including the7 May 2012✓
E-0081459event Only three days after his arrival at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck starts building on the fort.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0079803event Dr Willem van der Ross (77), researcher known for his study of double stars, dies in Johannesburg.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079801event Prime Minister Vorster holds his first-ever international press conference and asserts that discussion of separate development19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070032event The new British Ambassador to South Africa, Sir John Nicholls, presents his credentials to the State President.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069996event General Joseph-Désiré Mobutu ousts President Kasavubu in his second military coup in the Congo (Now Zaire).21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070434event John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070410event Nhlalayenza Ngcobo, chairman of the Inkatha Youth Brigade, is shot dead during an attack on his home.5 Dec 2011✓
R-0105455archive Central Committee statement: We pledge to fulfil his last wish to carry on the struggle for freedom22 Feb 2016–
E-0073765event In a public repudiation of Mugabe’s designs on expanding his presidential powers and expropriating White-owned farms, Zimbabwea31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072897event Pres. Mugabe announces that he will not renounce his decision to expropriate the farms of 1 503 farmers.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072883event Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Tanganyikan president, resigns because of opposition to his policies. He spends the year converting t20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072788event Thomas Mandlenkosi (Mshengu) Shabalala, IFP National Council member, is shot dead outside his house in Lindelani’s C Section, k16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072733event President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is assassinated by a member of his bodyguard.16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071857event Johan (Joan) van Arkel (26), first resident clergyman at the Cape, dies four months after his arrival.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071818event Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Barolong chief Wessel Montshiwa advises his people not to assist the British.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0012581event British pop star, David Essex, claims to have been quoted out-of-context regarding his return to perform in South Africa.16 Mar 2011✓
R-0124215archive Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria14 Sep 2017–

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