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E-0082383event The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082290event United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082274event Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082257event Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She cam23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082228event Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082197event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012–
E-0082183event The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082181event Olof Martin(i) Bergh, secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, is born in Cape Town.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082172event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012✓
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-0082078event The Director of Education in the Transvaal, Dr John Adamson, opens the Potchefstroom Teachers’ College with 131 students.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-0081512event Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.5 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-0081465event Leaders of the Neo-Destour (New Constitutional) Party, the Tunisian nationalist movement, are arrested after riots in Tunis.5 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-0081151event Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081150event UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081036event The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African National Students’ Congress (Sansco) launch a campai30 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-0081004event The Union Weather Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079854event Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) by the Goldstone Commission, Presiden19 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-0079841event Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre19 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✓

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