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E-0073311event People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec31 Jan 2012–
E-0073287event An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073285event The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073245event All South African refugees are to report to the Basutoland police for documentation or face deportation to South Africa. A clos31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073233event SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073204event President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073164event Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073124event In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073122event President Mandela meets United States black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. Both state their opposi27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073102event WW2: Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073057event Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air  and fo20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073036event Dr H.F. Verwoerd rejects ‘White leadership with justice’ and announces the dawn of a new era that would end discrimination in S20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073000event Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a meeting with President P.W. Botha in the beginning of 19820 Jan 2012✓
E-0072991event General Idi Amin Dada takes power in Uganda by military coup while the existing president, Milton Obote, is at a Commonwealth m20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072989event African heads of state of the Monrovia Group, which includes Liberia, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, issue charter for Pan-African20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072977event President F.W. de Klerk opens parliament and suggests a referendum in which the vote of each race group be counted separately.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072966event It is announced that efforts by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the So20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072956event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072954event Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072945event The independent Human Rights Committee (HRC) reports that 837 people have been killed in political violence in 1995 compared to20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071830event Obed Amon Mwanza of Zimbabwe is killed and six members of the ANC injured in a car bomb explosion in Bulawayo.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071789event Gen. Johannes (Jan) Gerhardus Celliers (70), initiator of the method to fire in full pursuit during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071671event Richard Ishmail, former ANC MK and managing director of Big Issue, a publication for the homeless, is accosted by a burglar and14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071630event Donald Woods, banned editor of the Daily Dispatch (East London) reaches Britain with his family, having fled South Africa via L14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071580event President Paul Kruger presents a medal to J.P. Hess, in commemoration of his introduction into South Africa of the first motor-14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071576event UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, on a visit to South Africa, asks President Nelson Mandela to intervene in the Lockerbie case.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071532event Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrive at Lanseria airport on board a rescue flight from Bangkok14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071454event Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071415event Justice Coetzee in the Rand Supreme Court refuses to lift an order barring resumption of publication of four Black newspapers.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071414event Rev. Allan Hendrickse is elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party of South Africa at its thirteenth Congress in Bloemfontein14 Dec 2011–

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