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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-0081061event The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Act 1 of 1999, comes into effect. It requires all State departments to adhere to norm30 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-0079828event The Rev. Daniel Lindley institutes the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes it19 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✓
E-0069901event Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North Coast.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069875event Zacharias Wagenaer, successor of Jan van Riebeeck, writes to the Lords 17 suggesting that sixty-seven families be sent back to21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069668event It is announced that French doctors have made a major break-through, which may lead to the invention of a HIV/Aids vaccine.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069646event The P.K. le Roux Dam (now Vanderkloof Dam), an integral part of the Orange River development project to provide electric power,11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069633event Governor Bruno von Schuckmann of German South-West Africa is succeeded by Dr Theodor Zeits, who occupied the post until 1915.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069575event In line with the Record of Understanding reached between the SAG and ANC, forty-two political prisoners are released. The Natio11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069570event Judgement starts in the Delmas trial. Mr Justice K. van Dijkhorst states that the state has proved that a dominant part of the11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070612event Sir Andrew Smith, explorer and founder of the museum now known as the South African Museum, is born in Roxburgshire, England.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070551event WWII: South African armoured cars take part in the pursuit of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps as it retreats towards5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070527event The World Health Organisation announces that a new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in the Ivory Coast. Ebola killed5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070497event Giriyondo border post opens. Tourists can now travel through the Kruger National Park to Mozambique. The border post is part of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070484event The US state department says it hopes South Africa’s withdrawal from Angola will be followed by the withdrawal of all foreign f5 Dec 2011✓

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