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E-0082281event The Rand daily Mail reports that ninety-six White soldiers walked out of a camp in April in protest against alleged poor food a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082234event Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082182event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082157event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082138event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012–
E-0082137event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081482event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081460event Debarkation of the first British Settlers starts at Algoa Bay (now Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape, from where they are gra5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081152event Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081092event The Union Jack is lowered and British occupation of Simonstown comes to an end after 143 years. South Africa takes formal posse30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081079event Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea30 Mar 2012–
E-0081068event Cornelis de Houtman leaves the Netherlands for the Cape with four ships in search of a sea route to the East Indies. Muller: V30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081017event Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081000event The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079851event The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079775event Justice Rumpff finds Sisulu and other accused not guilty on a charge of High Treason, in the special court in Pretoria They are19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079765event Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079745event About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070157event The first report of giraffes in South Africa by a European is made by Jonas de la Guerre, whose expedition to Namaqualand finds25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070130event Nick du Toit, found guilty of the failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, is jailed for thirty-four years. Four other South A25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070111event A week of violence in Ciskei continues in which it is officially estimated that 200 huts have been burned. The Botha Sigcau Hig25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070045event At least three high school students have been shot dead by police in Guinea during a protest against a lack of teachers at thei21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070022event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The Battle of Enslin or Graspan takes place, with the burghers under General De la Rey and Commandant Lubbe21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070011event Sara van Rooyen, 25, the woman suspected of swindling her friend’s R23.7m Lotto winnings is being held in police custody after21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069989event The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069983event Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069959event Britain starts military withdrawal from Suez war zone and petrol is rationed because of fear that the Suez crisis may lead to f21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069954event Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069599event Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever, journalist and author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, is born on the farm11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070650event World Food Program warns the UN Security Council that a record 38 million people were at risk of starvation in Africa. The sout5 Dec 2011✓

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