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E-0081436event Aldo Mogano, executive member of Alexandra Youth Congress, is shot dead outside his home in an alleged political murder.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081183event The Venda government under President Frank Ravele falls in a military coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, who im30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081179event The Hoexter Commission presents its fifth and final report to Parliament, recommending major reforms in the judicial system and30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081164event Combat-General Georges-Henri Anne Marie Victor Compte de Villebois-Mareuil, a former commander in the French Foreign Legion, ma30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081127event One week after the death of Ahmed Sékou Touré in Guinea, Colonel Lansana Konte is declared president. Tour&eacute30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081095event The Bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, takes refuge in Swaziland following continued massive arrests of persons of all rac30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079855event South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079852event South Africa deports self-confessed CCB agent Donald Acheson to London. Irish-born Acheson was implicated in the assassination19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079821event United Nations halts all operations in Somalia after gunmen shoot at one of its aircraft. No one is injured.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079736event The ship Amersfoort, which two months earlier has intercepted a Portuguese slaver bound from Angola to Brazil, arrives in Table19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079728event Beyers Naudé is arrested together with Allan Boesak and over 200 others for their part in a demonstration march through16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079719event Dumisani Henry Makhaye, ANC politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander and trainer, is born in KwaMashu, Natal. He represented16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079703event Police opens fire on anti-apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng, near Johannesburg, killing at least fourteen people16 Mar 2012✓
E-0070159event The British under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeats Sekhukhune, Pedi paramount chief in the Battle of Sekhukhune Mountain and impriso25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070117event The Afrikaans writer Breyten Breytenbach is sentenced in the Pretoria Supreme Court to nine years imprisonment for offences und25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070044event What Eskom calls a "rolling blackout" continues in the Western and parts of the Eastern Cape today after the shutdown21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070041event The Unicity Commission is established by the Provincial Minister of Local Government in the Western Cape, Minister Pierre Uys.&21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070036event The government concedes another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer the KaNgwane ‘homeland’ to Swaziland. Dr. Piet Koornho21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070024event Police in Natal open fire on people demonstrating against the imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, killing two and wounding twenty-21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069978event Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069974event More than 500 traditional healers march to the Treatment Action Campaign’s offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding tha21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069934event South African government announces it has joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069859event The first session of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council is officially opened in Bellville and immediately takes up th21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069725event A suicide bomber blasts his way into the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, setting off a powerful explosion that kills sixteen peo11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069701event Two Johannesburg paramedics, Adriaan Craukamp and Johan Erasmus, who abandoned a homeless man, who later died in the street, ha11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069700event Child sex-slaves are freed. Superintendent Andre Neethling, head of the child protection unit in Gauteng, announces police have11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069670event South Africa finally breaks the Nigerian jinx via a 2-1 well-deserved victory in an exciting Nelson Mandela Challenge clash at11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069635event Prof. Richard Ernest van der Ross, rector of the University of Western Cape, is born in Plumstead, Cape Town.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069609event British Parliament draws up sanctions against Ian Smith’s regime in Rhodesia. Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the British Governor of Rhode11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069605event After the bodies of thirteen Italian UN soldiers are "sold" in a Congo market, UN Secretary-General U Thant orders UN11 Nov 2011✓

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