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E-0074016event Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. Cuban intervention in the Angolan war started du10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079666event US President Bill Clinton, on a visit to Rwanda, acknowledges that the United States and the world failed to protect Rwandans f16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079658event Pres. P.W. Botha issues a certificate to prevent the Windhoek Supreme Court from trying six SA Defence Force personnel for the16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079639event The Rev. Wilhelm Adolph Alheit, army chaplain for the Boer forces and minister in Colesberg, Dordrecht and Ceres, is born.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079597event A new constitution with extended governmental power comes into operation in the Natal Colony when John Scott opens the first se16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079578event The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079556event Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) The 3-months siege of British soldiers in the Old Fort in Potchefstroom ends a16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079541event The SA government announces that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079530event Verwoerd tells the South African Parliament that the riots (Sharpeville, Langa, etc) could in no way be described as a reaction16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079527event Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet and twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrik16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079523event After failed discussions between President J. N. Boshof of the Republic of the Orange Free State and Chief Moshesh and his sons16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079512event Foreign Minister Roelof Botha announces that South Africa has agreed that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner fo16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079470event The Conservative Party is founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brings together, in a16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079407event The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporate16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079364event Business Day reports that the Soweto delegation for ending the rent boycott has released a report, drawn up by Planact, a priva16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076852event The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076838event The Prime Minister states that those who disagree with the government’s 12-point strategy, accepted by all four National Party12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076833event Two Bills conferring wide new security powers on the government are passed by Parliament. The Affected Organisations Act is int12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076791event In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076283event Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been5 Mar 2012–
E-0076277event Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders sei5 Mar 2012–
E-0076256event Chief of the SA Air Force (SAAF) Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagiano announces Waterkloof air force base the country’s most promin5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076244event The Weekly Mail reports that, since the beginning of February 1990, thirty people have died in Bophuthatswana. Violence and sch5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076234event The government gives official notice that it has refused to allow the Herstigte Nasionale Party to be registered as a political5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076221event President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076194event During a week-long meeting in Vereeniging by branches of the family of Dutch Reformed Churches, members of the White Nederduits5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074783event The Nigerian Immigration Service rescues sixty-two victims of human trafficking at Seme at the country’s border with Benin Repu24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074773event Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties the most representative gathering of South African political gr24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074771event The Harms Commission, appointed in December 1989 by the F.W. de Klerk government to investigate into state involvement in polit24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074693event The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,24 Feb 2012✓

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