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E-0079563event Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079544event In the homeland of Ciskei, a mutiny by police and defence forces led to the resignation of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. The TEC immedi16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079529event Lionel Ronald Louw, social worker and ordained minister of the Community of Faith is born in Worcester. He was delegate to seve16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079480event UK Prime Minister Tony Blair thanks President Nelson Mandela by telephone for his help in persuading Libya to hand over two sus16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079471event A powerful bomb at 2:05 am destroys the cells behind the Langa Commissioner’s Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law of16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079406event Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079365event More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079340event Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076881event It is announced that talks between Government officials and an ANC delegation led by Nelson Mandela will open in Cape Town on 112 Mar 2012✓
E-0076880event Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076851event News 24 reports that four top SANDF commanders are being investigated for sexual charges in the DRC by either the United Nation12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076832event The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076818event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Salisbury, British premier, rejects the offer of Pres. McKinley of America to act as mediator in the war12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076774event Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076755event Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076742event Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076281event The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr5 Mar 2012–
E-0076279event The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft5 Mar 2012–
E-0076258event The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the first gold was discovered, is registered in the5 Mar 2012–
E-0076241event Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076230event £100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076202event Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from the place where his wife was ki5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076186event Job Masego, WW2 veteran who sunk a German supply boat while a prisoner of war after the capture of Tobruk, dies in Springs, Tvl5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074747event More than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025, the United Nations says in Addis Ababa.  The numbers could soar t24 Feb 2012–
E-0074672event Dirkie Uys (Dirk Cornelis), child hero and son of the Voortrekker leader Piet Uys, is born in the district of Swellendam, CC.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074630event The first slave, Abraham, a stowaway from Batavia, arrives in Table Bay aboard the Malacca. He is made to work for the company24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074629event The first return fleet from Batavia to receive fresh produce on its way to the Netherlands arrives in Table Bay. Van Riebeeck s24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074627event Blood flows in the streets of Johannesburg as striking truck drivers turn violently on other truckers on the first day of a pay24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074609event An 18-seater plane, owned by Bop Air and chartered to Comair, explodes in mid-air near Germiston, killing all seventeen people24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074604event Jody Scheckter wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in his Tyrrell Cosworth. He is only the second South African-born d24 Feb 2012✓

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