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E-0081099event In an interim report, the Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079828event The Rev. Daniel Lindley institutes the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes it19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079807event The draft Constitution is published. It is widely criticized and the government decides not to introduce it in the current Parl19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079739event Nearly one hundred officers and men of Wood’s column are killed in a desperate fight against a Zulu impi on Hlobane Mountain du19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070164event India announces that a preliminary conference will be held on 6 February 1950 in Cape Town to discuss the procedure of the prop25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070142event Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two mercenaries involved in the hijacking of an Air India plane after the a25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070102event Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069734event Shortly before midnight, a farmer, John Louis Steyn, 73, is found dead in his house on the Sand River smallholdings between Mak11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069669event Breyton Paulse is included after first being omitted in the Springbok team for the test against England on 20 November, after a11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069650event Meshack Mogale (16), dies in police custody after being arrested at a night vigil for an unrest victim. He was allegedly kicked11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069575event In line with the Record of Understanding reached between the SAG and ANC, forty-two political prisoners are released. The Natio11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069570event Judgement starts in the Delmas trial. Mr Justice K. van Dijkhorst states that the state has proved that a dominant part of the11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070634event Speaking at the installation of Prince Goodwill Zwelithini as Paramount Chief of the Zulu nation in Nongoma, the Minister of Ba5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070612event Sir Andrew Smith, explorer and founder of the museum now known as the South African Museum, is born in Roxburgshire, England.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070573event The discovery of the oldest complete fossilised hominid or human-like skeleton in South Africa by Dr Ron Clarke of Witwatersran5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070568event The president of the general assembly announces the repeal of the oil embargo against South Africa in view of the installation5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070551event WWII: South African armoured cars take part in the pursuit of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps as it retreats towards5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070536event News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070527event The World Health Organisation announces that a new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in the Ivory Coast. Ebola killed5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070500event Lady Ann Barnard, author of descriptions of early Cape life and wife of Colonial Secretary Andrew Barnard, is born in Scotland.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070485event The government moves ANC leader Nelson Mandela from the private clinic in Cape Town, where he has been recovering from tubercul5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070467event A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070396event The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070394event Walter Sisulu, John Mavuso, Moses Kotane, Marks Ramitloa and Betty du Toit attend a Christmas party in aid of the high treason5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070383event Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (later5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070377event The Wesleyan mission station Wesleyville, on the Twecu River in the present East London district, is founded by the Rev. Willia5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070354event Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, is released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was sentenced in25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070304event Amos Khoza (18) falls to his death seven stories from a flat in Johannesburg where he is allegedly escorting police to identify25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070274event Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070267event A group of forty German travel agents are robbed at gunpoint of their handbags in their bus at Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township25 Nov 2011✓

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