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E-0082503event On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082499event Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082461event The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the30 Apr 2012–
E-0082451event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe30 Apr 2012–
E-0082444event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a30 Apr 2012–
E-0082388event President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation in Na23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082386event The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the23 Apr 2012–
E-0082377event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082370event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082357event Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082354event The elections result in the return to power, with a slightly reduced majority, of the National Party and notable gains for the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082319event Several University of Cape Town students are injured and eighteen arrested during a 1000-strong picket in De Waal Drive in Cape23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082312event Seven guerrillas are killed in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at Sinoya in the first engagement of the armed struggle against White ru23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082284event Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082236event WWII: East Africa: The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, is captured by Gener23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082187event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act23 Apr 2012–
E-0082162event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act23 Apr 2012✓
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-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-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✓

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