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E-0012219event Penny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.16 Mar 2011✓
R-0059559archive To All Residents of Soweto, Hostels, Reef and Pretoria, Flyer in English and Zulu by Soweto Students’ Representative Council, September 7, 197631 Mar 2011–
E-0069487event George Hobson (55), SA author of mainly animal stories, dies in Cape Town. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad11 Nov 2011–
E-0069332event Lillian Gugu Baqwa, first African woman admitted as attorney in 1977 and member of several boards, is born in Pinetown, Natal.7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069325event Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km in ten days on horseback to deliver despatch7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069264event Parliament adopts Restitution of Land Act by 212 to 26, with IFP and Freedom Front opposing it. South Africans forcibly removed7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069248event South African police open fire on Black rioters, killing fourteen and wounding thirty-nine, after a beer-hall brawl got out of7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069233event A prisoner of Pretoria’s C-Max prison manages to obtain a gun, which he uses to shoot dead another inmate and two warders befor7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069176event Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and7 Nov 2011✓
E-0093088event An elderly pensioner dies in a hail of bullets and two other pensioners are seriously injured during an attack at a pay point i28 Aug 2012✓
E-0087775event General Douglas MacArthur is named commander-in-chief of United Nations (UN) forces in Korea, including more than 800 South Afr6 Jul 2012✓
R-0087097archive SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT AN OFFICIAL LUNCHEON HOSTED BY PRESIDENT SCALFARO OF ITALY Quirinale Palace, Rome, 17 June 199827 Jun 2012–
R-0087020archive SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A DINNER HOSTED BY PRIME MINISTER ROMANO PRODI OF ITALY Villa Pamphili, Rome, 17 June 199827 Jun 2012–
E-0089564event Members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) attend a rally in Cape Town. Similar rallies were held in Durban and Jo31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089419event Terrorist bombs detonate within minutes of each other outside US embassies in buildings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Ta31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089362event Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and managing director of several companies, is born in Cardiff, Wales. He came in 1994 to Sou31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089258event A forty-eight-hour strike and a week of mass action starts to force an early transition to majority rule and effective measures27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089174event Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089159event (Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat27 Jul 2012✓
E-0086277event Field-cornet Salmon van As is executed by a firing squad after being found guilty by a British  Martial court of murdering Ca22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086118event Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088990event Funeral service of Rivonia trialist and MK cadre Wilton Mkwayi takes place in King William’s Town.  He was awarded this honour20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088928event South Africa has decided to close its Consulate in Wellington instead of waiting for New Zealand’s new Government to carry out20 Jul 2012–
E-0088897event South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088638event A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085667event Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and8 Jun 2012–
E-0085629event British mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned after having failed with much loss of life on both sides. He was ultimately d8 Jun 2012✓
E-0074526event Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono of Zimbabwe acknowledges his nation is broke and says food imports are gobbling up foreign cu17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074522event Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized in Zimbabwe by squatters and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign to reclaim17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074355event A total of 21 000 driving licences will have to be cancelled after a former Limpopo traffic officer, M.S. Pela, appears in cour17 Feb 2012–

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