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E-0082843event Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.7 May 2012✓
E-0082837event The Rev. Andrew Murray, DRC minister and educationalist, and second son of Andrew Murray sr. (1794-1866), is born in Graaff-Rei7 May 2012✓
E-0082787event Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr7 May 2012✓
E-0082785event Twenty-three of the twenty-six parties involved in the Multi-Party Talks at the World Trade Centre, adopt a Declaration of Inte7 May 2012✓
E-0082739event A section of railway line is blown up near Hoedspruit, Northern Transvaal, in what is believed to be an ANC attack to coincide7 May 2012✓
E-0082439event Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe30 Apr 2012–
E-0082365event Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082359event First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 223 Apr 2012✓
E-0082138event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012–
E-0082137event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082117event Gabriel François de Vos Hugo, judge president of the Northern Cape region and champion for the use of Afrikaans in Natal schoo23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081482event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081460event Debarkation of the first British Settlers starts at Algoa Bay (now Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape, from where they are gra5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081215event The International Court of Justice at The Hague hears the arguments of Ethiopia and Liberia in the South West Africa cases pres30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081184event At an informal meeting in Cape Town, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela agree to reschedule formal talks between the Go30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081068event Cornelis de Houtman leaves the Netherlands for the Cape with four ships in search of a sea route to the East Indies. Muller: V30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081001event At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079857event The North Sea Jazz Festival (31 March – 1 April) starts in Cape Town. It is the first time a jazz festival on four simultaneo19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079850event Chris Heunis, minister of Constitutional Development and Planning says that R555m is owing in rent arrears, of which R452m is o19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079763event Coca-Cola, originally developed by Dr John Pemperton as a brain tonic, is sold for the first time in Atlanta, Georgia. It becam19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079745event About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070157event The first report of giraffes in South Africa by a European is made by Jonas de la Guerre, whose expedition to Namaqualand finds25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070130event Nick du Toit, found guilty of the failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, is jailed for thirty-four years. Four other South A25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070104event The Belvedere arrives in the Durban harbour with 318 Indian labourers, the second group to arrive to work on the sugar plantati25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070045event At least three high school students have been shot dead by police in Guinea during a protest against a lack of teachers at thei21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070011event Sara van Rooyen, 25, the woman suspected of swindling her friend’s R23.7m Lotto winnings is being held in police custody after21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069662event Six militants open fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing seventy-four people, sixty-one of them foreign tou11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069563event The trial of twelve members of the banned ANC in Pietermaritzburg ends with the death sentence for one defendant and a total of11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069551event Babu Bodasing, also known as Dulel Sing Boodasing, prominent sugar cane farmer on the Natal north coast who arrived in Port Nat11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069544event Twelve children, aged 13-15, are trampled to death as panicked pupils flee what they think is a fire in their northern Nigerian11 Nov 2011✓

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