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E-0091229event Samuel Bonnin Hobson, school inspector of the Cape Province and co-author with his brother, G.C. Hobson, of animal stories, is23 Aug 2012✓
E-0089967event William Henry Bell, musician, composer and first director of the South African College of Music, known to his students as ‘Dadd10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089753event Former president F.W. de Klerk announces his decision to leave the New National Party because, joining the ANC as was decided b10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090900event His Majesty, the King of Malaysia, officially opens the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Teams of South Africa also take par14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090883event General Jan Christiaan Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies on his farm Doornkloof, near Pretoria. The Star, 04 Sept14 Aug 2012✓
E-0092786event Olof Bergh, Swedish explorer at the Cape, returns to the Cape from his second journey of exploration, ordered by Governor Simon28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084047event Former editor and publisher of Drum magazine, Jim Bailey, receives the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his c25 May 2012✓
E-0082057event 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-0082042event 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-0081713event The appeal by the Anglican Dean, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, against his conviction and sentence under the Te13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081565event Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a5 Apr 2012–
E-0081564event Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a5 Apr 2012–
E-0083634event The expedition under August F. Beutler, which left the Cape at the end of February, reaches Boesmans River according to his jou18 May 2012✓
E-0083485event F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo18 May 2012✓
E-0083479event Troops loyal to Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, break up protests in Kinshasa just a week after his forces enter the cap18 May 2012✓
E-0083472event President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem18 May 2012✓
E-0083456event Dr Victorio Carpio of the Philippines falls ill after his visit, together with Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, to the Transkei.18 May 2012✓
E-0083351event Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a14 May 2012–
E-0083297event Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco for Latin America on a papyrus boat, Ra II, to prove his theories that ancient Egyptians14 May 2012✓
E-0083215event Petrus Vusi Mahlangu of Vlaklaagte No. 2 disappears after being shot at a taxi rank on his way to a meeting at Chief Mabogo’s k11 May 2012✓
E-0083203event Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co11 May 2012–
E-0083115event Mazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist is born in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal. His first poems were published in news11 May 2012✓
E-0083110event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts enters Kroonstad. President M.T. Steyn proclaims Heilbron in the Orange Free State as his new ca11 May 2012✓
E-0083042event Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a11 May 2012✓
E-0082804event Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania.  His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined7 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 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-0081493event Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a5 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✓

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