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E-0081113event The Merensteijn strands at Jutten Island at the west Cape coast and sinks with a cargo of gold and silver, which is salvaged in30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081097event Paul Nash equals the world record for the 100-metre sprint when he clocks 10 seconds at a meeting in Krugersdorp. He also runs30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081011event Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079754event Six Black political prisoners who would have been freed at the end of the year have been released from Robben Island prison, in19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079734event South Africa is readmitted to the Olympic games on condition that it complies within thirty days to terms laid down by the Inte16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079711event Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T16 Mar 2012✓
R-0084584archive Message from the President of South Africa to the AAM Archives Committee Symposium held at South Africa House, London, 25-26 June 19991 Jun 2012–
E-0070118event At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069671event The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged its alliance partner, the ANC, to clarify its stance on political and human rights ab11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069615event Police arrest 2,300 people in the Black township of Sebokeng in what is believed to be the biggest raid against Blacks living i11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070408event Mr Mhleli and Dr Warren Zolile Nombe are acquitted in the Umtata regional court of charges relating to terrorism and the ANC on5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070270event The two-year rule by Sir Rufane Donkin of the Cape Colony is abruptly ended when Lord Charles Somerset returns from home leave.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070959event Gen. Louis Botha, SA premier, resigns because of the anti-British tone in the De Wildt speech by Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog. On reques9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070910event Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, is ruled out of the Bafana’s squad for the 2002 African Nations Cup finals by a twisted ankl9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070908event Three SA farmers from the Eastern Cape, who have crossed the border to Lesotho to search for stolen cattle, are shot and killed9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070864event Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda. When it seemed like the opposition DP party might win, the chair9 Dec 2011–
E-0070806event More than twenty-five people die in action by the SAP and SADF when residents of the Old Location, Windhoek, resist forced remo9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070805event The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073472event Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073739event Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073723event The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999.   In 1994 a parliament of 400 m31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073689event The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cote d’Ivoure ends in a tie with one goal scored on each side.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073682event A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talks with the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072919event Percy Qoboza, who had resigned as editor of the Post papers on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, says20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072886event The Reza Shah Museum, in honour of Reza Shah Pahlevi, housed in the Johannesburg house where he lived from 1942-1944, is inaugu20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072779event The Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head.  16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071889event William John Cormack Brebner, senator of the Union of South Africa and life-long chairman of the Afrikaner Party, is born in Bu6 Jan 2012✓
E-0072432event The Star reports that in an interim report issued by the Harms Commission it is claimed that Mr Peet De Pontes, National Party16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073415event World War 1: Gen. Louis Botha leaves for South West Africa to take control of the Union troops who would conquer the area from31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072960event Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.20 Jan 2012✓

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