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E-0082156event Olof Martin(i) Bergh, secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, is born in Cape Town.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081532event Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081531event Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081529event C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081521event Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081486event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081165event Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081030event A summit meeting of nine southern African countries in Lusaka decide to form the Southern African Development Coordination Conf30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079845event Bantu Homelands Constitution Act (National States Constitutional Act) No 21, providing for the granting of increased powers to19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079836event Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079834event Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079829event Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 10019 Mar 2012✓
E-0079809event From 1 June 1981, holders of Zimbabwean passports will require visas to enter South Africa. The Zimbabwean government reciproca19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079723event A major detailed Administration statement is made by the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, David16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079707event Winnie Mandela announces that she had instituted legal proceedings against the Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi16 Mar 2012✓
R-0084678archive Press statement, released by Nelson R. Mandela, Honorary Secretary of the All-in African National Council, June 26, 19611 Jun 2012–
E-0070109event General Antonie (Rooi Michael) Prinsloo, commanding officer of the northern Free State commandoes during Anglo-Boer War 2, is s25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070021event Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Grosskopf, author, newspaper editor and professor at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Bloe21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069970event Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069966event Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist guerrilla bases at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique, killing alleg21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069947event Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.  21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069926event The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069909event Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069891event It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069881event Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069876event Olof Martini Bergh (63), secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, dies in Cape Town.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069850event Nadine Gordimer, SA author and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is born in Springs.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069708event George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, is born in Johannesburg.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069703event General Lucas Johannes Meyer, later president of the New Republic (Nieuwe Republiek) established on territory received as rewar11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069683event King Mohammed V calls for the "total and unconditional" withdrawal of US military bases, and French and Spanish troop11 Nov 2011✓

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