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R-0087676archive Message From Moses M. Kotane, Walter Sisulu, J. B. Marks And Dr. Y. M. Dadoo Read At The Unveiling Of A Memorial To Johannes Nkosi In Durban, July 18, 19536 Jul 2012–
E-0086319event WWI: The first Battle of the Somme begins. It lasted five months and the death toll of more than 1 million resulted in an allie22 Jun 2012✓
E-0085980event Sipho Ngomane (23) of South Africa wins the 80th Comrades Marathon in Durban.   He is the second youngest ever to win the rac15 Jun 2012✓
E-0089135event The bulwark Walvis of the fort at the Cape collapses and in June the next year, Van Riebeeck concedes that the fort is falling27 Jul 2012✓
E-0088992event All of the political factions from Ivory Coast sign a new peace accord in Accra at the close of a two-day summit headed by thir20 Jul 2012–
E-0088991event All of the political factions from Ivory Coast sign a new peace accord in Accra at the close of a two-day summit headed by thir20 Jul 2012✓
R-0088073archive News Report and Resolution of the Conference of Chiefs and Leaders in the Transvaal and Orange Free State Convened by the Government, September 6-7, 193511 Jul 2012–
R-0098087archive ‘Is the continuation of the present a possible future?’ In honour of Richard Turner, 1941-1978 by Mark Heywood, 4 August 2014 (Daily Maverick), South Africa5 Aug 2014–
R-0093955archive ‘The coolies will elbow us out of the country’: African reactions to Indian immigration in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, by Heather Hughes1 Nov 2012–
E-0084979event President Thabo Mbeki opens the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th Editor’s Forum in Cape Town. He calls on media to provid1 Jun 2012–
E-0084978event President Thabo Mbeki opens the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th Editor’s Forum in Cape Town. He calls on media to provid1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084803event F.W. Reitz, former president of the OFS, becomes state secretary of the ZAR in the place of Dr W.J. Leyds, who is appointed to1 Jun 2012✓
E-0079654event The leader of the NRP, Vause Raw, states that the country’s major parties are divided and in disarray and that the NRP could la16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079633event Cape slavery may be dated from this date, (or 28 March, as given in two other sources) when the Amersfoort , with some 170 slav16 Mar 2012✓
R-0095409archive The role of the SACP in the transition to democracy and socialism by Central Committee of South African Communist Party, May 1993, South Africa9 Apr 2013–
R-0093396archive Toast Remarks by Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in his honour by the President of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa, Lusaka, Zambia, 23 October 20046 Sep 2012–
E-0092550event In Angola’s first multi-party election, the MPLA wins 53.74% of the vote for the 233-seat parliament, and Unita 34.10%. Unita a27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092356event The first diamond is found in South Africa. The precious stone is picked up by Jacobs’s children on the farm De Kalk near Hopet27 Aug 2012✓
E-0089837event Joan van Arkel, the first minister of religion at the Cape, arrives in Table Bay on board the Nieu Middelburg. Date is given as10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091153event Some 200,000 Coloured workers stay away from work (15 – 16 September) in the Cape Town area. The extent of the strike is unex23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090702event Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya rejects an offer by the USA and England to try the two Pan-Am Lockerbie suspects in the Netherlan14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084056event Empress Eugenie keeps an all-night vigil at the spot in Zululand where her son, the Prince Imperial of France, was killed on th25 May 2012✓
E-0084055event Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, the 22 year old Prince Imperial of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a Bri25 May 2012✓
E-0082069event Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im23 Apr 2012–
E-0082015event Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081805event The Union Jack is lowered for the last time in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of Rhodesia becomes Zimb13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081776event At a summit meeting in Lusaka (14-16 April) the leaders of East and Central African States on 16 April 1969 agree to issue the13 Apr 2012✓
E-0082891event The first 90-day detainees are held in South Africa. Some sources say that the first detainees were held under the 90-day law o7 May 2012✓
E-0082841event The Zulu chiefs are informed that their land has been annexed to the British Empire.   This date is given as 19 May in anothe7 May 2012✓
E-0082675event Rwanda frees more than 22 000 detainees, most of whom were held in connection with the 1994 massacre of some 800 000 ethnic Tut3 May 2012✓

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