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E-0092794event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Rietfontein, near Dundee, Natal, takes place, with the British falling back to Ladysmith.28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092793event Anglo-Boer War 2: John Tengu Jabavu, editor of Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion) and future ANC member, denounces Britain’s “irr28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092779event President Mandela confirms the appointment of Ismail Mahomed as Chief Justice to succeed Michael Corbett in 1997. The appointme28 Aug 2012✓
R-0084299archive A Woman’s Place Is In Her Organisation by members of the United Women’s Congress (SPEAK), 11 – 13 August 1989, Johannesburg31 May 2012–
E-0084083event Three offices of the PFP are petrol-bombed in Johannesburg. The South African Liberation Support Cadre (SALSC) claims responsib25 May 2012✓
E-0084053event Captain Robert Gordon, who named the Orange River after the Prince of Orange in 1779, arrives in South Africa.25 May 2012✓
E-0084033event The Springbok rugby team beats the Lions in the first test match of the series on Newlands 26-22.25 May 2012–
E-0084032event The Springbok rugby team beats the Lions in the first test match of the series on Newlands 26-22.25 May 2012✓
E-0084012event Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes25 May 2012✓
E-0083973event US Marines evacuate 900 civilians from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, wracked by looting and violence after a military25 May 2012✓
E-0083965event The Minister of Justice announces that the Christian Institute has been declared an affected organisation under the Affected Or25 May 2012✓
E-0083941event Ethiopia’s warplanes bomb a military airstrip on the outskirts of Asmara, taking its 2-week-old offensive to the Eritrean capit25 May 2012✓
E-0083933event Local elections held in the Western Cape result in the National Party securing control of all three district councils.25 May 2012✓
E-0083895event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on25 May 2012✓
E-0083876event The prime minister rejects the idea of a ‘canton’ system saying it is certainly not practical politics at this stage.25 May 2012✓
E-0083850event Justice J. Basson hands down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Sethwala, a Black police25 May 2012✓
R-0083731archive Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives’ Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, 11 November 194222 May 2012–
E-0082009event Piet Retief orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers, but meets with violent opposition b23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081921event Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb institute in Worcester, is born.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081912event In Kisangani, Zaire, rebel leaders bloc a massive U.N. airlift of Rwandan refugees, insisting that impassable roads be fixed an13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081904event Ten anti-apartheid demonstrators are arrested outside the South African embassy in London after a meeting marking one year of c13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081899event Guerrillas launch two separate raids in the far south of Rhodesia near the Transvaal border, killing three Easter holidaymakers13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081873event In a meeting with a representative of Lockerbie victims, Colonel Gaddafi agrees to hand over two suspects for trial by a Scotti13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081843event State President F.W. de Klerk announces plans for a two day multi-party conference and the establishment of a standing commissi13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081837event Rebels opposed to the Marxist Government of Mozambique claim responsibility today for cutting power lines from the Cabora Bassa13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081769event Bambata Rebellion: General mobilisation of Natal militia, with an appeal to the neighbouring states for assistance. To this, Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081759event Governments across the world apply United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destru13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081756event Odirile Maponya of Umkhonto weSizwe is killed when a bomb, intended for the Sterland complex, Arcadia, Pretoria, explodes in hi13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081752event The fifteen-year rule of President Hamani Diori in Niger comes to end when he is deposed in a coup.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081744event Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the African National Congress in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the Black13 Apr 2012✓

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