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E-0071123event Up to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland. The Swaziland Police Commissioner confirms the arrests a14 Dec 2011–
E-0071119event The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching14 Dec 2011–
E-0070907event The ANC confirms it has forwarded 300 applications from its members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and expects to s9 Dec 2011–
E-0070905event Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia9 Dec 2011–
E-0070816event Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070796event Anglo-Boer War 2: British General Gatacre is defeated in the Battle at Stormberg Junction by the Republican forces under Chief9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069046event In Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel begin a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the all1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073485event National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana, says that the NPKF will probably not be ready to keep the pea31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071285event Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071281event The three ships, Drommedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop, carrying Jan van Riebeeck and his party, leave Texel, the Netherlands, on14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071271event Four Black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, are banned on a technicality on the same day14 Dec 2011–
E-0073562event The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i31 Jan 2012–
E-0073549event The Prime Minister warns that the government will not hesitate to intervene, should campaigns by City Councils led by Johannesb31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073514event The Prime Minister announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the ‘homelands’ to speed up econ31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072690event The Sand River Convention, under which Britain renounces all claims to authority beyond the Vaal River, is signed.  This lays16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073403event The police in Zimbabwe start a search for William Player (64), heir to the British John Payer Tobacco Company, who disappeared31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073318event Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073107event A newspaper reports that the South African government told the World Court in a letter that it is prepared to hold a plebiscite27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073007event The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072957event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071656event SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071462event The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0089124event The Luanda International Jazz Festival is launched in Luanda, Angola27 Jul 2012✓
E-0011352event De La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers16 Mar 2011✓
R-0113535archive Message to Angolan Government from the South African Government, 3 April 1981 22 Feb 2016–
E-0095621event The Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations10 May 2013✓
E-0094455event A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport 20 Dec 2012✓
E-0123293event The last ‘Peru and Bala’ show is hosted on Lotus FM5 May 2017✓
E-0011200event British Withdraw from Colesburg Area during the South African War16 Mar 2011–
R-0119103archive Report on the Whittlesea Resettlement areas with special reference to Zweledinga 22 Feb 2016–

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