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E-0090876event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Pres. Paul Kruger crosses the Transvaal border on his way to Lourenço Marques, from where he leaves for Eu14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090751event Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090704event Swazi King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has picked a 16-year-old girl, Miss Teen Swaziland as his new wife, brin14 Aug 2012–
E-0081851event At the celebrations of twenty-five years of independence of Zimbabwe, Pres. Mugabe, who has led his country for the past twenty13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081814event President Mandela, present in his capacity as chief of the Temba clan, rather than Head of State, inaugurates the Council of Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083618event Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home18 May 2012–
E-0083617event Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home18 May 2012✓
E-0083390event Dick King, a 29-year-old wagon driver, and his 16-year-old servant, Ndongeni, leave Durban on horseback for Grahamstown on an e18 May 2012✓
E-0081141event Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081001event At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079822event Britain’s Queen mother, widow of King George VI and mother of his successor to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 101.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069558event SA boxer Vic Toweel loses his world bantamweight title when he is knocked out by Australian Jimmy Carruthers in the first round11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070623event Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070531event News 24 reports that South African actor Antony Coleman has won the award for best actor in a feature film for his performance5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070451event Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070881event On his last voyage of discovery in the Resolution and the Discovery, Capt. James Cook finds a group of islands, which he named9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070807event Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, collects his prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073455event Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071255event Thomas Adolf Florin (32) is found guilty in Windhoek, Namibia, on the murder of his wife, Monika, in Swakopmund. He is sentence14 Dec 2011✓
E-0072691event On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo (Cetewayo) addresses 20 000 of his warriors at the great military k16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073264event The first wine is pressed at the Cape.   Jan van Riebeeck writes in his journal that the harvest amounted to twelve “mengelen31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073109event The Security Police arrest Major A.M. Kozlov, a senior officer in the Soviet KGB, during his third visit to South Africa in 19827 Jan 2012✓
E-0071474event In his New Year’s Eve address the prime minister warns the country that South Africa will have to face the Communist onslaught14 Dec 2011–
B-0065300biography Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela1918-2013✓
B-0008641biography Rahima Moosa1922-1993✓
B-0009119biography Oliver Tambo1917-1993✓
R-0153504archive SA Air Force operation, ANC owns up to its part in causing struggle deaths, Pretoria News, 13 May 1997 9 Apr 2026–
R-0122951archive Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 20172 Mar 2017–
B-0150748biography Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers1900-1979✓
B-0068387biography Cecil John Rhodes1853-1902–

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