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E-0082718event Pres. Paul Kruger lays the foundation stone of the ‘Staatsgebou van die ZAR’ (Raadsaal)on Church Square, Pretoria.7 May 2012✓
E-0082662event Capital Media (Pty) Ltd is founded and that makes the publication of the first Rekord/Record newspaper possible.3 May 2012✓
E-0082595event The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA.   They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.3 May 2012✓
E-0082543event Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.3 May 2012✓
E-0082540event The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshesh at Wittebergen, near Winburg, after the first Basuto war.3 May 2012✓
E-0082518event International Workers’ Day commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. Although May Day has been30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082514event Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082512event The first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. Its recommendations include registration of Black t30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082511event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082457event The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into30 Apr 2012–
E-0082383event The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082362event An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082344event The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082290event United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082197event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012–
E-0082172event The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081465event Leaders of the Neo-Destour (New Constitutional) Party, the Tunisian nationalist movement, are arrested after riots in Tunis.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081413event Empire-builder Cecil John Rhodes is buried at the World’s View in the Matopo Hills, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081236event The amnesty commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses applications for amnesty of a further seventy-nine AN30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081196event Prof. Nic Wiehahn, chairman of several commissions, notably the commission that recommended the legalising of Black labour unio30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081160event Jan van Riebeeck urged by the Vryburgers (Free Burghers), starts peace negotiations with the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi group).30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081151event Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081053event South Africa’s second biggest labour federation is officially launched following the merger of the Federation of South African30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081036event The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African National Students’ Congress (Sansco) launch a campai30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081004event The Union Weather Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079843event The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid publishes a report recommending that the Security Council call on South Afric19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079841event Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079812event The Republic of Venda Constitution Amendment Act No 4, having the effect of making Venda a one-party administration (s 24(1)),19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079797event The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) begins at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079779event Chief Minister Cedric Phatudi of Lebowa signs the ‘Seshego Declaration’ with the United Party Transvaal leader, Harry Schwarz a19 Mar 2012✓

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