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E-0073429event The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073402event Six men suffocate in Vereeniging after being locked up by robbers in the airtight compartment of a meat truck.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073365event James Chapman (90) dies in Kimberley. He was the first explorer who took photographs of places he visited.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073358event Operation PROTECTO (3 February 1994 – December 1994) of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to restore peace on31 Jan 2012–
E-0073298event Local Government Transition Act No 209, providing for revised interim measures to promote the restructuring of local government31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073260event Judge Jacob de Villiers, judge of the Appeal Court in South Africa, dies in Somerset West, Western Cape.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073249event Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students’ Organisation, is killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073201event In his opening speech to Parliament, President Botha outlines government policy on the restoration of South African citizenship31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073177event World Leprosy Day: Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental organisations gather in South Africa from 30 Janua27 Jan 2012✓
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–

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