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E-0073220event David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073205event According to figures from the South African Police, the number of unrest-related deaths in Natal since 1 September 1987 up to t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073203event Allan Hendrickse, leader of the Labour Party, replaces Carter Ebrahim as Minister of Education and Culture in the House of Repr31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073202event City Press reports that (White) matriculants of the Menlo Park High School held a sit-in protest and handed a petition to the p31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073197event Nine of the world’s poorer nations open talks in Lusaka, Zambia, on a joint strategy to break traditional trade links with Sout31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073186event An Avro York aircraft, en route from Johannesburg to London, lands in Nairobi, Kenya, after the machine was damaged when a swar31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073147event date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073137event Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073116event The ANC announces that it has given President de Klerk a list of police officers believed to have participated in township viol27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073053event Prof. Ben Marais (89), one of the first persons to denounce apartheid from within the Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Pretoria.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073008event The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072994event At least 100 people drown and the town is devastated when the river at Laingsburg in the Karoo floods its banks.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072993event A bank and twenty-five hostages are seized in Silverton, Pretoria. Two of the hostages die; several are injured; all three ANC20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072990event Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072975event The International Cricket Conference (ICC), after meeting in London on 23 and 24 January, decided to suspend as from 1 April al20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072952event Presley Chweneyagae, 22, star of the Oscar-winning movie Tsotsi  is arrested in Pretoria on a charge of fraud after being trap20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072950event Louis Schmidt (62), ex Springbok, captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team and the original ‘Blou Bul’ (Blue Bull), dies in20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071817event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Frederick S. Roberts arrives at the Cape, replacing Sir Redvers Buller as commander-in-chief of the Brit6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071669event Tony Blair, British premier, announces in Pretoria that Britain is going to increase the grant for development by 40% during th14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071639event News 24 reports that the Irish deputy premier, Mary Harney, from Dublin, has quietly been holidaying with family and friends in14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071625event The Battle of Wagon Hill (Platrand), south of Ladysmith, takes place, in which the Boer forces make an unsuccessful attempt to14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071623event Cecil John Rhodes is forced to resign as prime minister of the Cape, because of his involvement in the Jameson Raid.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071603event The Van Riebeeck festival, commemorating the settlement of Whites in South Africa 300 years ago, is officially opened by dr D.F14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071591event The leader of the United Party in the Transvaal, Harry Swartz, signs a five-point ‘declaration of faith’ with Chief Gatsha Buth14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071552event Wilhelmina ten Damme, wife of Governor Hendrik Swellengrebel, dies at the age of forty. Swellendam was named in honour of them.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071527event Stompie Sepei is taken from the Methodist manse in Orlando by Jerry Richardson, former coach of the Mandela United football tea14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071459event Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071418event President Daniel Torotich arap Moi wins the first multi-party elections held in Kenya for twenty-six years. All foreign observe14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071320event Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College, is born in Zutphen, the Netherlands. He was the first linguist to argue that Afrikaans14 Dec 2011✓
A-0065439article Polokwane the Segregated city4 Jul 2011–

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