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E-0073019event The South African Indian Council (SAIC) calls for a referendum in the Indian community on the acceptability of the Constitution20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073001event SA signs agreement with the government of India on the inter-governmental Joint Commission for Political Trade, Economic, Cultu20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072998event Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072986event The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk’ starts its own training of ministers at the then Transvaal University College, with dr J.H.J.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072982event Three leaders from the IFP, Frank Malalose, national chairman and the Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072937event The Weather Bureau uses a modern piece of electronic equipment, a receiver for cloud pictures from satellites, for the first ti20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072932event Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death for leading the "Irish Commando" a20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072925event Justice M. Stegmann records an open finding in the inquest into the murder of Witwatersrand University academic Dr David Webste20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071814event Andries Dreyer, missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071803event In an historic victory, government troops capture the headquarters of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in central Angola. Savim6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071760event Adam Faith suspends his concert tour of South Africa, because the government prohibits him to perform before mixed audiences.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071631event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071614event Allan Boesak, charged with financial impropriety, agrees not to take up the post of Ambassador to the United Nations.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071599event Former State President Marais Viljoen, the country’s last ceremonial state president  (1979-1984) dies as a result of heart fa14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071593event The (Coloured) Labour Party opts for an election for the eighty representatives to the Coloured House of Representatives, witho14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071558event English archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the grave of Tutankamen, Egyptian king who died 3 276 years ago. In some sources14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071539event Johannes Jacob van Tonder, founder of the FAK (Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge) is born in Venterstad in the Karoo.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071516event President David Dacko of the Central African Republic is ousted in a military coup by army commander Jean-Bédel Bokassa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071498event Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071492event Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, Austri14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071491event President Thabo Mbeki joins several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071478event The Nigerian civil government of President Shehu Shagari is overthrown in a fourth, bloodless, military coup led by Major-Gener14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071449event Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohamad Ismail reports that the number of Somali’s killed by the tidal waves that battered14 Dec 2011–
E-0071417event Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071416event Winnie Mandela is banned for a further five years and continues to be restricted to the small town of Brandfort.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071403event Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071370event Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the “Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold” for his contribution as busines14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071361event Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071349event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Greylingstad takes place when Commandant Buys attacks the South Rand mine, near Greylingstad. P14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071345event Hendrik Swellengrebel (60), only governor of the Cape who was born at the Cape, dies in Utrecht, the Netherlands.14 Dec 2011✓

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