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E-0073171event Patrick McCall, member of Stander’s bank robber gang, is killed by police in Stander’s hideout in Houghton, Johannesburg.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073135event Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073125event Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously Caledon Plain).27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073117event Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and nine other members are arrested for staging a riot o27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073006event Frederick Wells, an official of the Premier Diamond Company, finds the Cullinan diamond, the largest diamond ever found.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072999event Minister of Manpower and Public Works, Pietie du Plessis, resigns over a financial scandal involving his department and a compa20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072985event Mohandas Ghandi finally reaches an agreement with the South African Union government over rights of Indian nationals (voluntary20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072984event Robey Leibbrandt, Olympic boxer and staunch supporter of the Ossewabrandwag (an Afrikaner patriotic movement), is born in Potch20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072964event Daily News photographer Laurie Bloomfield takes a picture of rioting in Cato Manor, which is immediately published around the w20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071833event The Secretary-General submits a report to the Security Council with recommendations for the observation of elections in South A6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071767event ANC President Oliver Tambo declares, at a gathering in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the f6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071752event Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British South African statesman and administrator of native affairs, who was responsible for the anne6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071575event Restoration of SA citizenship, announced by parliament on 15 December 1993, becomes effective. More than seven million people i14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071553event James Archbell, retired missionary, prints the first edition of the weekly newspaper The Natal Independent and General Advertis14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071547event Several ANC members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. A further group of seventeen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071523event The Centre against Apartheid is established in the United Nations Secretariat, with E. S. Reddy, Chief of Section for African A14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071519event The Weights and Measures Bill, providing for the metrification of weights and measures, thereby introducing the metric system,14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071507event Johannes Frederik Janse van Rensburg (Hans) is appointed as leader of the Ossewabrandwag (OB), an Afrikaner cultural movement,14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071437event Exxon Corporation becomes the first major international oil company to withdraw from South Africa because of racial policies.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071436event Eleven residents are killed by vigilantes in clashes between ‘Fathers’ and ‘Comrades’, following the killing of a community cou14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071435event Winnie Mandela is arrested for contravening a banning order prohibiting her from being in the magisterial district of Johannesb14 Dec 2011–
E-0071357event Cariango, Angola is taken by Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) guerril14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071346event The possessions of Piet Retief and about 100 men who were murdered in February by Dingane, is auctioned.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071321event Dr Petrus Stephanus Zacharias Coetzee, first assessor of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), is born at Blaauboschfontein, Boshof14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071303event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development leaves Malawi after a four-day visit during which cooperation between nati14 Dec 2011–
R-0124130archive Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 19777 Sep 2017–
A-0095934article Timeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-201319 Jun 2013✓
A-0062492article Cape Town Timeline 1300-19971 Apr 2011–
R-0071972archive Chapter 1413 Jan 2012–
R-0122486archive Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 19818 Dec 2016–

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