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E-0079542event Saul Tsotetsi (SACP), Alfred Yika (ANC) and Elias Mothloung (SACC employee) are killed when a hand grenade explodes in Sebokeng16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079534event Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets the ANC in Zambia and fails to convince the organization to abandon the armed struggle.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079502event The Prime Minister dismisses allegations that the Cabinet is divided, and denies that there are differences in principle betwee16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079500event International Anti-Apartheid Year (21 March 1978 – 20 March 1979), proclaimed by the General Assembly in resolution 32/105B o16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079453event Sir Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand arrive in Wynberg after the first flight from London to Cape Town.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079435event Zandra Mitchley, her son, Shaun, and his friend, Clare Silberbauer, are murdered in Eikenhof, near Johannesburg. Three ANC acti16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079424event The second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in thirty-one of the Council’s forty elective seats16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079422event Prime Minister Vorster says that his government is prepared to engage in dialogue, without preconditions, with other African co16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079372event Prof. Hans Roosenschoon, director of the conservatory in Stellenbosch, informs the members of the university choir that the cho16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079368event Mugabe is re-elected as president in Zimbabwe with 92.7% of the vote but the opposition contests the results.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076861event Helena Dorothea Strauss, singer, choir director and music teacher, is born on the farm “Terugkeer” in Wepener district, OFS.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076821event Lord Selborne (William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selbourne) is appointed High Commissioner for South Africa in succession12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076805event The Gauteng Academy of Sport, in conjunction with the universities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand and Vaal Uni12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076768event The Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076719event The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) delegation is received by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, in Delhi, submitting a petition dr12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076287event Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising5 Mar 2012–
E-0076217event The 80,000 striking truck drivers and their employers reached an agreement "in principle" about the workers’ wages du5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076216event Fifteen suspected mercenaries are arrested in Equatorial Guinea, including the alleged leader of the advance party, Nick du Toi5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076211event Britain and the United States veto a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council, following the banning of organisa5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076207event ”The City of Pretoria no longer exists”, a spokesman for the African National Congress’s Tshwane region says in a statement iss5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074779event Pierre-Claver Rwangabo, the governor of Rwanda’s southern province Butare, is assassinated in an ambush. The prime minister bla24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074749event The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074723event Public Safety Act No 3 commences. This Act, passed in response to the ANC’s civil disobedience campaign, provides for a state o24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074690event UK students start a campaign to force British universities and colleges to divest up to R650m in South Africa.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074684event President Samora Machel of Mozambique closes his frontier with Rhodesia, seizes all Rhodesian assets in the country and places24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074670event Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was fatally stabbed near his home in Langa, Cape Town.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074668event At least fifty Congolese militiamen are killed by South African and Pakistani United Nations peacekeeping troops in a bloody gu24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074661event A gangway collapses when passengers board a ferry on the Congo River, drowning at least 147 in the Republic of Congo.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074623event Rwandan Hutu rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074619event Three days before the 4 March deadline for registering parties, Chief Buthelezi announces in Durban that he is considering regi24 Feb 2012✓

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