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E-0082351event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster indicates that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves, once t23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082311event Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082274event Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082246event South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections (26-29 April) for the national assembly and provincial parliaments start.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082228event Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082088event Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af23 Apr 2012–
E-0081532event Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081531event Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081521event Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081518event Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081514event Wouter Basson, a scientist who headed South Africa’s covert chemicaland germ-warfare operations during the apartheid era, is ac5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081501event Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081486event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081474event The home match between Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius, ends in a tie with no goals scored. 5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081165event Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081060event The National Research Foundation (NRF) is established as autonomous body to provide services and grants to support postgraduate30 Mar 2012–
E-0081059event The National Research Foundation (NRF) is established as autonomous body to provide services and grants to support postgraduate30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081040event Date of the implementation of United Nations Resolution 435 for Namibian independence, according to a four-point protocol signe30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081037event The government imposes a one-year ban on all outdoor meetings except sports meetings and funeral gatherings in cemeteries. 30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081030event A summit meeting of nine southern African countries in Lusaka decide to form the Southern African Development Coordination Conf30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079845event Bantu Homelands Constitution Act (National States Constitutional Act) No 21, providing for the granting of increased powers to19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079836event Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079834event Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079829event Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 10019 Mar 2012✓
E-0079815event Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079814event A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079811event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that, contrary to previous indications, the constitutional proposals will be put to a refer19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079809event From 1 June 1981, holders of Zimbabwean passports will require visas to enter South Africa. The Zimbabwean government reciproca19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079788event A UN program to feed two million Angolans resumes after the government lifts a three-month ban on food deliveries.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079723event A major detailed Administration statement is made by the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, David16 Mar 2012✓

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