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E-0074234event Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074225event Gunmen kill eighteen young ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal, the first major act of violence in a Zulu anti-election campaign.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074071event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. French relieves Kimberley after a siege of 123 days.  The town has suffered only 134 casualties among a10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079687event On this date all Africans become citizens of their ethnic ‘homelands’. However, they will not become foreigners in the Republic16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079685event Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079636event William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079540event Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079438event The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079437event Robert Mugabe wins another six-year term as president of Zimbabwe after crushing his two opponents in the country’s presidentia16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079380event Dr James Barry (allegedly a lady, Miranda Stuart) is appointed by Lord Charles Somerset as medical inspector of the Colony in t16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076884event The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, hands over specialised anti-terrorism equ12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076865event Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 commences: Prohibits gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considers th12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076776event Samuel Maharero, who succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076744event De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076276event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that a thorough inquiry into Transkei land claims has been made5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076227event A rusty 1.4kg shell, dating back to 1901, explodes in the playground of a Johannesburg school, injuring more than thirty childr5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074649event It is announced in Johannesburg that restriction orders have been issued against six leaders of the South African Students’ Org24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074644event The Bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, resigns after having been deported from South Africa in September 1960 for his stro24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074640event Two pilots of the SA Air Force’s Cheetah Squadron, Lieutenant D.A. Ruiter and Captain W.J.J. Badenhorst, are killed in action w24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076175event Bertie van Zyl (72), biggest tomato farmer in the world and owner of tomato farm ZZ2, dies in a Pretoria hospital.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0011783event Mayibuye Uprising-black South Africans, slaves in the land of their birth, rose up to peacefully throw off their shackles16 Mar 2011✓
E-0092728event Dr Neville Edward Alexander, co-founder with Kenneth Alexander of the National Liberation Front, which aim was to bring togethe28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092401event Gen. Sir Redvers Buller embarks at Southampton on board the Dunnottar Castle, one of his fellow-passengers being Winston Church27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092200event Hoosain Ayob, director of coaching for the United Cricket Board and former teacher and headmaster, is born in Brits, Transvaal.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092152event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development states that, in 1973, 475,387 foreign Africans were working in South Afric27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092129event Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th27 Aug 2012–
E-0092128event Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092045event Chief Lennox Sebe, Chief Minister of the Ciskei, accepts independence in principle, and wins endorsement for his stand at a ral27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091918event Muziwendoda Mdluli of the National Intelligence Agency is found shot dead in his car in Silverton, Pretoria. He was investigati27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091774event South Africa signs treaty with Japan on certain portions of land granted to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Yokohama.23 Aug 2012✓

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