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E-0082503event On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082451event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe30 Apr 2012–
E-0082444event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a30 Apr 2012–
E-0082388event President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation in Na23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082377event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082370event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082354event The elections result in the return to power, with a slightly reduced majority, of the National Party and notable gains for the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082300event Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082284event Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082222event Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, arriving in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of P23 Apr 2012–
E-0082213event Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, arriving in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of P23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082148event Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082136event Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082135event Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082096event Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de23 Apr 2012–
E-0082076event French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p23 Apr 2012–
E-0081520event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081441event Government soldiers in Lubumbashi, Zaire’s second largest city lay down their arms and join the cause of rebels advancing on th5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081435event A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081432event A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081431event Ahmad `Ali al-Mirghani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese People’s Forces, ousts Sudanese president Ja’far Muhammad an-Num5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081422event Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081412event Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081226event The Human Rights Commission (HCR) of South Africa says that the level of violence in the country has reached unprecedented leve30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081220event MK hero Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed in Pretoria on two counts of murder. His comrade Monty Motloung, who had d30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081211event Thousands of Africans, Indians and Coloured people demonstrate in major towns and take the pledge. Dr. Dadoo says this is the b30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081198event Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as governor with a mandate to further develop the colony and to improve conditions fo30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081124event The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081122event World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat30 Mar 2012✓

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