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E-0082121event The Prime Minister of SA maintains that the country is economically so strong that it can withstand economic sanctions. The onl23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082111event Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C23 Apr 2012–
E-0082096event Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de23 Apr 2012–
E-0082090event The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon23 Apr 2012–
E-0081475event The National Productivity Institute says in its annual report, that employment in the formal sector of the economy is the same5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081450event The Trans-Kalahari main road, the first road south of the Sahara to connect the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, is opened.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081441event Government soldiers in Lubumbashi, Zaire’s second largest city lay down their arms and join the cause of rebels advancing on th5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081431event Ahmad `Ali al-Mirghani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese People’s Forces, ousts Sudanese president Ja’far Muhammad an-Num5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081412event Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081404event A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081225event The African National Congress is to triple the size of its national executive committee to 105 members to broaden decision-maki30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081220event MK hero Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed in Pretoria on two counts of murder. His comrade Monty Motloung, who had d30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081211event Thousands of Africans, Indians and Coloured people demonstrate in major towns and take the pledge. Dr. Dadoo says this is the b30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081190event Zaire falls further into chaos when parliament and the new prime minister declare each other unconstitutional on the eve of pea30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081188event IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party gives an ultimatum that it will boycott the Constituent30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081185event The ANC presents an ultimatum which includes demands for the firing of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081180event Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell in Mahwelereng, Lebowa, with more tha30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081139event The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081124event The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081117event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081099event In an interim report, the Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081058event The New National Norms and Standards for School Funding are implemented in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of30 Mar 2012–
E-0081057event The New National Norms and Standards for School Funding are implemented in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081025event The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079856event Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079739event Nearly one hundred officers and men of Wood’s column are killed in a desperate fight against a Zulu impi on Hlobane Mountain du19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079727event In the worst bus accident in SA history, a school bus with seventy-six learners of Hoërskool Vorentoe plunges into the Westden16 Mar 2012✓
E-0070164event India announces that a preliminary conference will be held on 6 February 1950 in Cape Town to discuss the procedure of the prop25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070153event South Africa’s tour of the British Isles finishes on an upbeat note as Jake White’s experimental young side takes Scotland apar25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070102event Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch25 Nov 2011✓

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