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E-0090021event Gas belching from the volcanic Lake Nyos in the remote mountains of Cameroon kills more than 1,200 people and injures 500.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0082843event Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.7 May 2012✓
E-0070385event Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go5 Dec 2011✓
R-0122077archive 'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 20165 Oct 2016–
B-0007865biography Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe1900-1963✓
B-0123406biography Nicholaas Frederic de Waal–✓
E-0070550event WWII British 8th Army opens offensive in North Africa by attacking Sidi Barrani in Egypt. They seize 1,000 Italians in a sudden5 Dec 2011✓
E-0073734event A 463-ton British wooden ship, Childe Herold, en route from Bombay to London and carrying more than 1300 pieces of ivory, is wr31 Jan 2012✓
E-0069353event The Star reports that construction workers have discovered a mass grave containing human bones and ammunition 400m from the for7 Nov 2011✓
E-0087494event Philip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds.   Owin28 Jun 2012✓
E-0088989event Robbers gun down Philippus Wolfhaardt, land reform pioneer who also helped to finance a local school and employed 100 workers.20 Jul 2012–
E-0088944event North West premier Edna Molewa signs a R100 million land restitution deal, compensating six communities for apartheid-era force20 Jul 2012–
E-0088297event Nigeria’s military government orders the immediate release of at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler Gen.13 Jul 2012✓
E-0079628event At least thirty-two people die and 100 are injured when a train between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya derails.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076255event Forty miners are trapped 2 400m underground after the earthquake at Stilfontein.  One miner died and another is still missing.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0092715event Swedish Foreign Minister, on a visit to Cape Town, reveals that her government gave about $400m in humanitarian assistance to o28 Aug 2012✓
E-0090552event At least six people die and more than 100 are injured in a giant gas explosion at Sasol in Secunda.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091511event Armed men raid an Algerian village, shooting or stabbing to death at least 200 people and wounding 100 others.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091478event Teboho Mokgalagadi, with his hair dyed golden, wins a Paralympic world record gold medal 100m sprints in his first internationa23 Aug 2012✓
E-0083186event An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.11 May 2012✓
E-0071845event A devastating storm hits Pretoria – five inches of rain falls within four hours and the Apies River flows 100m wide.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073308event Riots between ethnic Hausa and Yoruba rocks Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, killing 100 people and forcing thousands31 Jan 2012✓
A-0065349article Sotho (South Sotho or Basotho)29 Jun 2011–
R-0093500archive Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban10 Sep 2012–
B-0144658biography Andries (General China) Chamile1900–
B-0008740biography Billy Nair1929-2008✓
R-0120446archive Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 7 February 1977, Volume 100 22 Feb 2016–
E-0092972event Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima28 Aug 2012–
E-0087817event Some 2 000 men storm King Hassan’s birthday party in Morocco, killing 100 people in an attempted coup; the king survives.6 Jul 2012✓
E-0085658event Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials open the floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and l8 Jun 2012✓

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