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E-0090975event B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090700event At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083913event Sandile, Xhosa chief born in the Ciskei in 1820, is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Capt. J. Lonsdal25 May 2012✓
E-0083902event The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River25 May 2012✓
E-0083668event Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen18 May 2012✓
E-0083633event Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr18 May 2012✓
E-0083445event On a meeting, twelve days after the first one on which was decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name De Burger is decide18 May 2012✓
E-0083434event Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric18 May 2012✓
E-0082909event The European Union, South Africa’s greatest trading partner, says it plans to invest about US$ 210 million in the country in 197 May 2012–
E-0082614event News24 reports that Iraq is the most dangerous place to be a journalist, followed by Cuba and Zimbabwe, according to the Commit3 May 2012✓
E-0082302event The Huguenot Church, designed by Louis Thibault and oldest church building in SA after the Groote Kerk in Cape Town, is consecr23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081479event Health activists address the R13-million shortfall faced by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. By lau5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081182event The first company to be indicted under the US Anti-Apartheid Act pleads guilty to importing four used jet-aircraft engines from30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079857event The North Sea Jazz Festival (31 March – 1 April) starts in Cape Town. It is the first time a jazz festival on four simultaneo19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079817event The SA government seals off all borders with Transkei to prevent any further cross-border attacks from Transkei by the Pan-Afri19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069920event Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069915event Instructions are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069595event Comdt-Gen. Piet Joubert attacks Venda Chief Mpefu’s main kraal during the Mpefu War (also called Magato War). The sub-chiefs su11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070257event Flames roar through the cruise ship Achille Lauro off Somalia. The ship, which was hijacked by PLO terrorists in 1985, sinks tw25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071224event In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w14 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-0073525event Top officials from the ANC, Azapo, the PAC and Inkatha appear at a joint rally to appeal for warring factions in Bekkersdal to31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073507event The British capture Benghazi in Libya for the first time; they hold it until April but are then forced to evacuate, recapturing31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071885event Comet  McNaught, reported to be the brightest comet visible from earth in the last thirty years, is seen at its brightest in d6 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-0073058event The trade union Solidarity is due to meet with Sasol management today to discuss the gas explosion at Sasol’s Natref plant in S20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073013event De Villiers Bester Lamprecht, the first South African to complete the mile in less than four minutes, is born in Prince Albert.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072968event The rugby match between South Africa and Wales in Cardiff ends in a draw.   The South African team could not beat a single ho20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071619event The Proteas became the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia when they took an unassail14 Dec 2011✓
E-0095552event General Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria26 Apr 2013✓

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