Timeline of South African history
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Before European colonization
- BCE in Southern AfricaSouthern Africa BC-Events:* 186,000 BC - Earliest footprints of humans found in South Africa* 100,000 BC - San or Bushmen are gradually displaced by the Khoikhoi * 20,000 BC - The Khoikhoi migrate down the west coast...
- Early CE in Southern AfricaADs in Southern Africa-Events:* 300 AD - Early Iron Age communities are established in the northern and eastern regions of Southern Africa* 500 AD - A group of Bantu-speaking tribes migrating southwards reached present-day KwaZulu-Natal Province...
- 13th century13th century in South Africa-Events:* Mapungubwe flourished as a trading center in modern-day Limpopo province throughout the century. It receded in importance by 1270....
- 14th century
Colonization
- 15th century15th century in South Africa-1480s:* 12 March 1488 - Bartholomew Diaz, a Portugal|Portuguese navigator, lands at what is to become Mossel Bay in the Western Cape Province and erects the first padrão on the South African coast...
- 16th century16th century in South Africa-1550s:* 8 June [1552] - The Portuguese galleon Sao João is wrecked near Port Edward. Only 25 out of the 480 survivors who undertook a 165 days march to the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now Mozambique arrived...
- 1600s1600s in South Africa-Events:* 1594 - 1601 - James Lancaster, an English navigator, explores the southern African coast and establishes trade relationships with the Khoikhoi...
- 1610s1610s in South Africa-Births:* 1614 - Zacharias Wagenaer, Commander of the Cape, is born* 21 April 1619 - Jan van Riebeeck, Commander of the Cape, born Culemborg in the Netherlands...
- 1620s1620s in South Africa-Events:* 1622 - The Portuguese ship, Sao João Baptista, was lost off the eastern coast of South Africa...
- 1630s1630s in South Africa-Events:* 1631 - The Khoikhoi leader Autsumao, is taken to Batavia and is later returned to the Cape to serve as an interpreter. He also acts as the resident agent/postmaster for the passing ships...
- 1640s1640s in South Africa-Events:* 1643 - The Portuguese ship, Santa Maria Madre de Deus is wrecked off the South African east coast* 25 March 1647 - The Dutch ship, Nieuwe Haerlem is wrecked in Table Bay and survivors later build a small fort...
- 1650s1650s in South AfricaJan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape on April 6, 1652. He set up a supply station and fortifications for the Dutch East India Company. Bernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first European baby, was born at the Cape on June 6. In 1654, Batavian convicts and political opponents were banished to the Cape...
- 1660s1660s in South Africa-1660:* The Dutch East India Company imports the first horses into the Cape from Batavia* Jan Danaert leads a horseback expedition from the Cape settlement to the east and reaches what he names the Olifants River...
- 1670s1670s in South Africa-1671:* Land is purchased from the Khoikhoi and the Cape Colony started* 1 December- After the death of Pieter Hackius, Governor of the Cape, a political council is appointed to run the colony with Coenraad van Breitenbach as chairman-1672:...
- 1680s1680s in South Africa-1680:* Land is given to Dutch farmers along the Eerste River in the Cape Colony-1681:* March - Deported Islamic religious leaders arrive from Batavia, later to become the Cape Malay community-1682:...
- 1690s1690s in South Africa-1690:* Settlers started moving beyond the Cape Colony driving off the Khoikhoi from the land* Slaves in Stellenbosch attempt unsuccessfully to revolt* 16 January - Wreck of the Galiot Noord, 24 km west of Cape St... - 1700s1700s in South Africa-1700:* An ordinance is proclaimed by the Cape Colony's administration, restricting the importation of Asian slaves* Dlamini chiefdoms move south and settle north of the Phongolo River; thereby forming the core of the future Swazi nation...
- 1710s1710s in South Africa-Deaths:* 24 June 1712 - Simon van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, died at his estate in Constantia, Cape Colony* December 1711 - Johannes Cornelis D'Ablaing, Governor of the Cape, dies...
- 1720s1720s in South Africa-1722:* Groot Constantia was built* 17 January - Sampson and Amstelveer, richly laden, are wrecked on the southern coast, beginning a disastrous year for Dutch ships in South Africa...
- 1730s1730s in South Africa-1730:* The Dutch East India Company imports slaves from Mozambique and Zanzibar* The first trekboers reach the George area, trek inland into Langkloof* 8 March - Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor of the Cape Colony...
- 1740s1740s in South Africa-1741:* Henri Guillaume Bossau, founder of the Boshoff family in South Africa and great-grandfather of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, 2nd state president of the Orange Free State, arrives in Cape Town from Bayonne, France as locksmith in the service of the Dutch East India Company.-1742:* 25 January —...
- 1750s1750s in South Africa-1754:* A population count shows that there were 5,510 Europeans and 6,279 slaves in the Cape Colony-1755:* The foundation stone of Old Town House in Cape Town is laid* 1 May - A Smallpox epidemic breaks out at the Cape Colony. A total of 2,372 people die...
- 1760s1760s in South Africa-1760:* Trekboers Jansz Coetse, Klaas Barends and others cross the Gariep River -1763:* 11 September - The "La Fortune", a French man-of-war, is wrecked near Mossel Bay in the Cape Colony while on its way from Réunion-1766:...
- 1770s1770s in South Africa-1771:* The Dutch East India Company institutes a policy in the Cape Colony which dictated that schools should teach exclusively in Dutch and strict laws of assembly* Clashes between Trekboers and Xhosa begin as trekkers cross the Gamtoos River in the east...
- 1780s1780s in South Africa-1780:* The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony* July - The Sultan of Mysore, India declares war on the British* 16 December - The Netherlands joins the League of Armed Neutrality that is formed by Catherine the Great of Russia to protest British interference with the...
- 1790s1790s in South Africa-1791:* 29 June - Johannes Isaac Rhenius is appointed acting Governor of the Cape Colony-1792:* A Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Graaff Reinet* A Moravian Mission is founded at Genadendal... - 1800s: 1800 - 18011801 in South Africa-Events:* Farmers of Graaff Reinet revolt for the second time against the British rule* The 3rd Cape Frontier War ends* An official expedition of Truter, Somerville, Barrow and Daniell with missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards reaches Dithakong...
- 18021802 in South Africa-Deaths:* 8 August - Field Commandant Tjaart van der Walt is killed in a skirmish against the Xhosa and Khoi-Khoi in the Kouga Mountains...
- 18031803 in South Africa-Events:* 1 March - As a result of the Peace of Amiens between England and France, the Cape Colony is returned to the Batavian Republic* 23 April - Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland arrives from the Batavian Republic in Simon's Town as solicitor-general...
- 18041804 in South Africa-Births:* 29 May - Gottlieb Wilhelm Antonie van der Lingen, founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, is born in Cape Town...
- 18051805 in South Africa-Events:* The Napoleonic Wars break out between France and the United Kingdom* 10 January - British forces once again set sail for the Cape Colony as the Batavians are still allied with France...
- 18061806 in South Africa-Events:* 8 January - British troops land at Losperds Bay, between Bloubergstrand and Melkbosstrand in the Cape Colony.**The Battle of Blaauwberg takes place between the British and the Dutch colonists....
- 18071807 in South Africa-Events:* British ban slave trade and the importation of slaves to the Cape ends.* 17 January - Henry George Grey is appointed as acting Governor of the Cape.* 22 May - Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon is appointed Governor of the Cape....
- 18081808 in South Africa-Events:* The settlement of Clanwilliam is established* The slave trade is abolished.-Births:* 31 January - Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, the 2nd president of the Orange Free State from 1855 to 1859, is born in Kogmanskloof, Montagu....
- 18091809 in South Africa-Events:* The Governor of the Cape, Earl of Caledon, declares that the Hottentots had to have a fixed residence and could not migrate between regions without written authority.* Gola's Xhosa community settles at Pramberg... - 1810s: 1810 - 18111811 in South Africa-Events:* Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the eastern frontier starting the 4th Cape Frontier War* Taps and iron pipes are installed for the first time in Cape Town* The settlement of Caledon is established with the building of a Dutch Reformed Church...
- 18121812 in South Africa-Events:* The settlement of Cradock is established* The settlement of Grahamstown is founded...
- 18131813 in South Africa-Events:* Adam Kok III's people assert the name Griqua* Court proceedings are now opened to the public in the Cape Colony* A Dutch Reformed Church is established in George* 2 November - Lord Charles Henry Somerset is appointed Governor of the Cape-Births:...
- 18141814 in South Africa-Events:* 13 August - The French are defeated by the British and the Netherlands is reverted to a monarchy. In the complex peace treaty, the Cape Colony is permanently taken from the Dutch by the United Kingdom....
- 18151815 in South Africa-Events:* Shaka becomes king of the Zulus* Slagter's Nek Rebellion* 30 May - The Arniston, a British troop transport East Indiaman, is wrecked at Waenhuiskrans near Cape Agulhas while returning from the British campaigns in Ceylon-Births:...
- 18161816 in South Africa-Deaths:* 9 March - Cornelius Faber, Hendrik Prinsloo, Theunis de Klerk, and brothers Stefanus and Abraham Bothma are hanged for the Slagter's Nek Rebellion...
- 18171817 in South Africa-Events:* A Dutch Reformed Church is established in Uitenhage* Approximately 200 Scottish artisan immigrants are brought to the Cape Colony by Benjamin Moodie among them is David Hume who becomes an explorer and big-game hunter.-Births:...
- 18181818 in South Africa-Events:* Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the eastern frontier starting the 5th Cape Frontier War that only ends the following year* Settlers move beyond the Orange River* Beaufort West is founded* 27 August - Cradock is founded-Births:...
- 18191819 in South Africa-Events:* The 5th Cape Frontier War ends* Dutch Reformed Church congregations are founded in Beaufort West and Somerset West-Births:* 17 September - Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Pretoriuskloof in the... - 1820s: 18201820 in South Africa-Events:* The Zulu king Shaka started extending his kingdom, destroying other tribes along the way* James Read produced first SeTswana book* Andries Waterboer was elected the Griqua captain at Griquatown...
- 18211821 in South Africa-Events:* The London Missionary Society mission station at Kuruman, Northern Cape is started by Robert Moffat...
- 18221822 in South Africa-Events:* The British proclaim St. Lucia a township* The Dutch language is abolished in the Cape Colony and English becomes the only official language...
- 18231823 in South Africa-Events:* British trader Henry Francis Fynn established a permanent settlement at Rio De Natal after land was granted to him by the Zulu king Shaka* The Tswana areas are disrupted by Difaqane raids...
- 18241824 in South Africa-Events:* Bergenaar Rebellion* George Thompson travels inland and names the Augrabies Falls the Cataract of King George* A road is built through the Fransch Hoek Pass...
- 18251825 in South Africa-Events:* The Dutch Reformed Church establish a congregation in Somerset East* The first steamship arrives in Table Bay* The depreciated rix dollar is converted into the British sterling* The Anglican St...
- 18261826 in South Africa-Events:* Governor Charles Somerset leaves the Cape Colony under a cloud of bad feelings* Adam Kok II establishes Philippolis* The Dutch Reformed Church congregations are established in Clanwilliam, Colesberg, Durbanville and Tijgerberg...
- 18271827 in South Africa-Events:* A Wesleyan mission station is established north of the Great Kei River at present day Butterworth, Eastern Cape...
- 18281828 in South Africa-Events:* Shaka leads the Zulu army south in a number of raids against the Pondos* Dingaan overthrows his half brother, Shaka to become king of the Zulus* The vagrancy and pass laws are abolished in the Cape Colony-Births:...
- 18291829 in South Africa-Events:* October 1 - South African College founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the South African College Schools and the University of Cape Town.... - 1830s: 18301830 in South Africa-Events:* 9 April - The first publication of the Dutch/Afrikaans newspaper De Zuid Afrikaan is issued in the Cape Colony* Full civil privileges are granted to Roman Catholics in the Cape Colony* The road over Sir Lowry's Pass is opened...
- 1831 - 18321832 in South Africa-Births:* 30 September - Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, commander of British troops in the Second Boer War, is born in Cawnpore, India...
- 18331833 in South Africa-Events:* David Hume, explorer and big-game hunter, becomes the first European to enter the country of the Bamangwato * All slaves were emancipated in the British Empire...
- 18341834 in South Africa-Events:* 15 January - John Herschel, an English mathematician and astronomer, arrives in Cape Town with his twenty-foot-long telescope* 21 December Xhosa armies attack the eastern regions of the Cape Colony starting the 6th Cape Frontier War that only ends in 1836...
- 18351835 in South Africa-Events:* The Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony in what is called the Great Trek into the interior to escape British domination* Port Natal is renamed Durban in honor of the Cape Colony Governor, Sir Benjamin d'Urban-Deaths:...
- 18361836 in South Africa-Events:* The 6th Cape Frontier War ends.* The Cape Colony's Legislative Council provides for elected municipal councils.* Voortrekkers under Andries Potgieter defeat the Ndebele at the Battle of Vegkop....
- 18371837 in South Africa-Events:* Voortrekker Louis Trichardt arrives in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique* Separate administrative districts are granted to Port Elizabeth, Cradock and Colesberg...
- 18381838 in South Africa-February:* 4 February - The Zulu King, Dingaan signs a deed of cession to cede land to the voortrekkers led by Piet Retief-April:* April - Battle of Italeni where Zulus repulsed the Voortrekkers....
- 18391839 in South Africa-Events:* January - Henry Jervis is elected the Military Administrator of Port Natal* 15 February to May - Johannes Stephanus Maritz is voted Natalia Republic's chairperson of the Raad... - 1840s: 18401840 in South Africa-Events:* The Cape Town Municipality is formed and has a population of 20,016, of which 10,560 are Whites* 26 March - The town of Wellington is founded in the Cape Colony* 16 October - Potchefstroom, Winburg and Natalia unifies as a single Boer republic...
- 18411841 in South Africa-Events:* Missionary David Livingstone arrives in the Cape Colony and proceeds to Kuruman before journeying through Central Africa.* Voortrekkers set up a council in Potchefstroom-Deaths:...
- 18421842 in South Africa-Events:* War breaks out between the British and the Boers in Natal. See Battle of Congella* Dick King rides his horse ride from Durban to Grahamstown to get help...
- 18431843 in South Africa-Events:* 23 April - Hendrik Cloete is appointed Commissioner of Natal* 4 May - Natal is proclaimed a British colony* 8 August - The Volksraad of Natal agrees to the terms of British annexation as a Crown Colony, resulting in a Trek of Boers to territories outside Natal...
- 18441844 in South Africa-Events:* April - Voortrekkers from Natal cross back over the Drakensberg Mountains and settle at Potchefstroom* Land ownership in the Cape Colony is changed from leasehold to free hold* The settlement of Victoria West is established...
- 18451845 in South Africa-Events:* The road from Cape Town to Stellenbosch through the Maitland area is completed* The Voortrekker settlement of Ohrigstad is founded* Natal becomes an autonomous district of Cape Colony* Battle of Zwartkoppies...
- 18461846 in South Africa-Events:* Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the Cape Colony's eastern frontier starting the 7th Cape Frontier War, this war was also known as the War of the Axe* The Voortrekkers establish Bloemfontein...
- 18471847 in South Africa-Events:* The Cape Colony's boundary is extended to Orange River and the districts of Victoria East and British Kaffraria are annexed* The Montagu Pass is opened* Sugar cane plantations are started in Natal* The settlement of East London is established...
- 18481848 in South Africa-Events:* 23 March - Approximately 163 German settlers, known as the Bergthiel Settlers, arrive in Natal* Voortrekkers settle across the Vaal River* Battle of Boomplaats* The settlement of Soutpansberg is established, later changed its name to Schoemansdal...
- 18491849 in South Africa-Events:* Diocesan College founded in Rondebosch, Cape Town by Robert Gray .* The British propose to ship convicts to the Cape Colony, but the Cape population strongly object and it is squashed with the help of British MP Charles Bowyer Adderley* The street Heerengracht in Cape Town is changed to... - 1850s: 18501850 in South Africa-Events:* The first Afrikaans book is written by an imam of slave descent* Wesleyan settlers arrive in Natal* The "Childe Herold", a British ship on route from Bombay to London is wrecked off Dassen Island, Cape Colony...
- 18511851 in South Africa-Events:* Xhosas clash with the white settlers on the Cape Colonys eastern boundary starting the 8th Cape Frontier War and ends in 1853 in South Africa* Sugar is first produced from cane in Natal-Deaths:...
- 18521852 in South Africa-January:* 17 January - The South African Republic is established with the signing of the Sand River Convention-February:* 26 February - The British troopship, HMS Birkenhead is wrecked near Gansbaai, Western Cape-March:...
- 18531853 in South Africa-Events:* The 8th Cape Frontier War ends* The settlement of Hopetown is established* Nicholaas Waterboer, eldest son of Andries Waterboer succeeds as Griqua captain* The settlement of Queenstown is established* The settlement of Seymour is established...
- 18541854 in South Africa-Events:* 23 February - The Orange Free State Republic is established with the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention* 15 October - U.G. Lauts appointed consul of the Orange Free State in the Netherlands* The Cape Colony elects its first parliament...
- 18551855 in South Africa-Events:* Pretoria is established* 20 Irish miners arrive to work in the Namaqualand copper mines* 27 August - Jacobus Boshoff becomes the 2nd president of the Orange Free State...
- 18561856 in South Africa-Events:* Approximately 3000 Crimean War veterans settled in Kaffraria, later joined by 2700 German civilians.* Natal becomes a separate colony.* February - U.G...
- 18571857 in South Africa-Events:* Robert Moffat completes Old Testament Bible translation into Setswana* Approximately 157 Irish women arrive on the ship "Lady Kennaway", settle in British Kaffraria.* The first Legislative Council is selected in the Natal Colony...
- 1858 - 18591859 in South Africa-Events:* The first railway is started in South Africa. Its route is from Cape Town to Stellenbosch, Paarl and Wellington.-Births:* 11 January - John Tengo Jabavu, political activist and newspaper editor,... - 1860s: 18601860 in South Africa-May:* 1 May — The seat of the South African Republic government is officially transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretoria* 4 May — The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshoeshoe I at Wittebergen, near Winburg, ending the first Basuto War-June:...
- 18611861 in South Africa-Events:* 16 September - Roman Rock Lighthouse at the entrance to Simon's Town starts operation after taking 4 years to build-Births:* Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, the 2nd African National Congress' president, is born in GaMphahlele near Polokwane...
- 1862 - 18631863 in South Africa-Events:* 1 April - "Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company" commences with the first horse-drawn trams in Cape Town from the foot of Adderley Street and out along Somerset Road to Green Point...
- 18641864 in South Africa-Events:* The Republic of New Scotland is set up in what is now the Amsterdam region in Mpumalanga* Bloemhof is founded on the banks of the Vaal River when diamonds are discovered in the area...
- 18651865 in South Africa-Events:* Ostriches are domesticated* Economic depression hits South Africa* War breaks out for the second time between Orange Free State and Basothos-Births:* 12 January Johannes Francois Elias Cilliers, poet, writer and dramatist, is born-Deaths:...
- 18661866 in South Africa-Events:* India officially stops sending Indian labourers to Natal* Erasmus Jacobs discovers a diamond on the banks of the Orange River, near Hopetown* 1 March - Stellenbosch Gymnasium is opened -Births:...
- 18671867 in South Africa-Births:* 26 March - Sir Arnold Theiler, father of the research institute at Onderstepoort, Pretoria, is born in Frick, Switzerland* 2 July - Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader, is born in Herschel...
- 18681868 in South Africa-Events:* 12 March - Basutoland is proclaimed a British territory* The Korana War breaks out along the Orange River...
- 18691869 in South Africa-Births:* 2 October - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born at Porbandar in western India... - 1870s: 18701870 in South Africa-Births:* 24 May - Jan Christiaan Smuts, a South African statesman and soldier is born near Riebeeck West, in the Cape Colony* 10 September - Gabriël Gideon Cillié, a professor and member of the head committee of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings, is born-Deaths:* 11 March - King...
- 18711871 in South Africa-Events:* Gold is discovered in Pilgrim's Rest area* A mail route is established from Cape Town to the diamond fields* An diamond is discovered and leads to a diamond rush...
- 18721872 in South Africa-Events:* The railway system in the Cape Colony is taken over by the local government* December - Responsible government is granted to the Cape Colony-Deaths:* 1 September - Robert Gray, the first Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Cape Town dies at the age of 62...
- 18731873 in South Africa-Events:* Griqualand West is established as a British colony** The first telephone exchange in South Africa is introduced in Port Elizabeth[incorrectly dated]* 1 May - The use of Dutch is officially allowed in the Cape Colony's parliament...
- 18741874 in South Africa-Events:* A college founded at Stellenbosch which later becomes the University of Stellenbosch* The railway line from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage is opened* The Burgerspond, the South African Republic's first coin, is introduced-Births:...
- 18751875 in South Africa-Events:* The Black Flag Rebellion is staged by white diamond diggers at Kimberley* 14 August - The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners is formed at the home of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl...
- 18761876 in South Africa-Events:* Boers build a Dutch Reformed Church at what is now the town of Amersfoort in Mpumalanga Province* The first railway line in Natal is built* 15 January - Die Patriot, the first Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Paarl-Births:...
- 18771877 in South Africa-Events:* Xhosas clash with the white settlers starting the 9th Cape Frontier War which ends the following year* Native Locations or reservations for Tswana people are established in Griqualand West...
- 18781878 in South Africa-Events:* 12 March - Commander R.C. Dryer takes possession of the area surrounding Walvis Bay* 14 May - Paul Kruger leads a second deputation to the United Kingdom to demand the freedom of the South African Republic...
- 18791879 in South Africa-January:* 11 January - Britain declares war against the Zulus and launches the Anglo-Zulu War after the an ultimatum issued on 11 December 1878 is rejected* 22 January - The Zulus wipe out British forces at the Battle of Isandlwana... - 1880s: 18801880 in South Africa-Events:* Griqualand West is annexed to Cape Colony* Britain forms the first Legislative Council in the Transvaal* The Afrikander Bond is established* The Transvaal declares itself the South African Republic again...
- 18811881 in South Africa-January:* 28 January - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War-February:* 8 February - The Boers defeat the British in the Battle of Schuinshoogte during the First Boer War...
- 18821882 in South Africa-May:* 9 May - Paul Kruger becomes President of South African Republic* 28 May - Two ships, the Agnes and the Christina , run ashore at Plettenberg Bay-September:...
- 18831883 in South Africa-Events:* 16 April - Paul Kruger is elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek* 9 May - Paul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek...
- 18841884 in South Africa-August:* 5 August - The Republic of Vryheid in Natal is formed* 7 August - Walvis Bay is occupied by the Cape Colony-November:* 3 November - Imvo Zabantsundu , South Africa's first newspaper for Black people is published by Thanda Press in King William's Town* 15 November - The Berlin Conference...
- 18851885 in South Africa-Events:* The railway line from Cape Town to Kimberley was opened* 26 February - The Berlin Conference ends and the Scramble for Africa starts-Births:* 31 January - Marthinus Johannes de Jong, a landscape painter, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
- 18861886 in South Africa-Events:* The discovery of the main gold reef on the Witwatersrand which gave birth to Ferreira's Camp later to be called Johannesburg* 11 October - The Standard Bank of South Africa opens the first bank in Ferreira's Camp-Births:...
- 18871887 in South Africa-Events:* The town of Boksburg is laid out to serve the surrounding gold mines* The Stellenbosch Gymnasium changes its name to Victoria College , later becomes the Stellenbosch University-Deaths:...
- 18881888 in South Africa-Events:* The Eastern Province Rugby Union is founded.* 13 March De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded in Kimberley.* 30 October - Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company swindles Lobengula out of Matabeleland in the Rudd Concession, named after Charles Rudd.* The town of Amersfoort...
- 18891889 in South Africa-Events:* 13 March - The Potchefstroom treaty is signed by President Paul Kruger and President F.T. Reitzthe of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. The treaty binds each state to assist the other whenever either is unjustly attacked.... - 1890s: 18901890 in South Africa-March:* 17 March - The first railway line in the Transvaal is opened for service between Boksburg and Braamfontein in Johannesburg-June:* 6 June - Magadu Bhambada becomes chief of the AmaZondi people at the age of 25 after the death of his father and uncle...
- 18911891 in South Africa-Events:* 12 January - Mahatma Gandhi passes the Bar examination in England* 11 June - Britain and Portugal agree on territory in East Africa at the Anglo-Portuguese Convention in Lisbon-Sport:* The British Isles rugby union team first tour of South Africa....
- 18921892 in South Africa-Events:* The railway line from Cape Town to Johannesburg is completed with connections to Port Elizabeth and East London* 20 August - The Transvaal National Union is established...
- 18931893 in South Africa-Events:* The first Crocidolite mine is opened near Prieska* May - Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban-Deaths:* 30 April - Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81...
- 18941894 in South Africa-Events:* 25 June - Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, meets Sir Henry Loch, the British High Commissioner, in Pretoria to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders* 22 August - The Natal Indian Congress is founded by Mahatma Gandhi...
- 18951895 in South Africa-Events:* St. Lucia Game Reserve, 30 km north of the town St. Lucia is proclaimed.* The Hluhluwe Game Reserve is proclaimed* The Umfolozi Game Reserve is proclaimed* 13 April - The first electrical street lights in Cape Town are switched on...
- 18961896 in South Africa-Events:* South Africa's first school of mines is opened in Kimberley -January:* 2 January - Leander Starr Jameson and his forces surrender at Doornkop near Krugersdorp...
- 18971897 in South Africa-Events:* 21 April - Sir Alfred Milner becomes High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony* 5 May - Port Elizabeth is flooded* Bergville Mountain Village is established in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in Natal-Births:...
- 18981898 in South Africa-Events:* Benjamin Jennings Caddy, a militant trade unionist immigrates to South Africa from Australia at the age of 17* 26 March - The Sabie Game Reserve is proclaimed in the Official Gazette of the South African Republic, the first of its kind in Africa-Births:* 6 June - Jacobus Johannes Fouché,...
- 18991899 in South Africa-April:* The Transvaal government orders Asiatics to move into Locations specified by the government before the 1 July-May:* 4 May - Cape Town based food packaging company Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company was founded in London at a cost of GB£272,000 .* 5 May - Sir Alfred Milner, High... - 1900s: 19001900 in South Africa- January :* 10 January - Frederick Roberts arrives at Cape Town to replace Redvers Henry Buller as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa...
- 19011901 in South Africa-January:* 15 January - The HMS Sybille, a 3400 ton Apollo class cruiser struck a reef about 5 km south of Lamberts Bay* 31 January - General Jan Smuts and his commandos captures Modderfontein, Transvaal, during the Second Boer War...
- 19021902 in South Africa-May:* 4 May - Boer General Jan Smuts meets with the British General Horatio Kitchener at Kroonstad* 6 May - Qulusi-Zulu chief Sokhobobo attacks Field-cornet Potgieter and 70 Boers while sleeping with a 300 strong impi leaving 56 Boers and 52 Zulus dead in the Holkrantz massacre* 31 May - The...
- 19031903 in South Africa-Events:* The County of Pembroke, a British cargo ship, is shipwrecked near Port Elizabeth* February - Mahatma Gandhi enrolled to the Bar of the Transvaal Supreme Court...
- 19041904 in South Africa-Events:* February - Pneumonic plague strikes Johannesburg* 22 June - The first of 62,000 Chinese labourers arrive in South Africa to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers-Deaths:...
- 19051905 in South Africa-Events:* Non-whites are not given voting rights except in the Cape Province* The Cape Town City Hall, in Darling Street, is built* 25 June - The Cullinan Diamond, the largest diamond in the world at , is discovered by Frederick Wells at Cullinan-Births:...
- 19061906 in South Africa-Events:* Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.* 2 May — Lord Alfred Milner, British colonial secretary and the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, returns to Britain....
- 19071907 in South Africa-Events:* 22 March - The Transvaal Asiatic Registration Act is passed in parliament which started protests by Indians...
- 19081908 in South Africa-Events:* Bosman de Ravelli composes the first afrikaans art song* 30 January - Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after been tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month...
- 19091909 in South Africa-Events:* South Africa becomes the first non-European country to join FIFA* 25 February - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months prison...
Union of South Africa
- 1910s: 19101910 in South Africa-May:* 31 May - The formation of the Union of South Africa** Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone becomes the first Governor-General of the Union of South Africa** Louis Botha becomes the first Prime Minister of South Africa...
- 19111911 in South Africa-Events:* 18 April - Lusitania, a Portuguese 5,557 ton passenger liner struck Bellows Rock just off Cape Point onroute from Mozambique to Lisbon and sinks...
- 19121912 in South Africa-Events:* 4 January - Outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg* 8 January - The South African Native National Congress is formed in Bloemfontein and John Langalibalele Dube becomes the first president...
- 19131913 in South Africa-Events:* The Natives Land Act is passed limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories* The City of Greater Cape Town is formed by the union of Central Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont and Kalk Bay...
- 19141914 in South Africa-Events:* South Africa declares war on Germany* The Clan Stuart, a steamship is blown ashore between Glencairn and Simonstown in the Cape Province* Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton is appointed the 2nd Governor-General of the Union of South Africa...
- 19151915 in South Africa-Events:* 1 May - General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, leads the army in the occupation of German South West Africa* 9 July - Dr Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders to General Louis Botha at the farm Khorab, between Otavi and Tsumeb-Births:* 2 February –...
- 19161916 in South Africa-Events:* 15 - 19 July - 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed during the Battle of Delville Wood in South Africa's biggest loss in World War I-Births:...
- 19171917 in South Africa-Events:* The Castle in Cape Town is handed over to the South African Defence Force* The gold mining company Anglo American Corporation is founded by Ernest Oppenheimer...
- 19181918 in South Africa-Events:* 8 January - The Koöperatiewe Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika , Co-operative Winemakers' Society of South Africa, is founded in Paarl, Western Cape* 2 April - Victoria College becomes the Stellenbosch University...
- 19191919 in South Africa-Events:* 23 April - The Potchefstroom Teachers' College opens its doors* 3 September - Jan Smuts becomes the 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa* 17 September - German South West Africa is placed under South African administration... - 1920s: 19201920 in South Africa-Events:* 10 January - The League of Nations is established as the Treaty of Versailles goes into effect* 1 February - The South African Air Force is established...
- 19211921 in South Africa-Events:* 3 May - The second census of the Union of South Africa takes place* 28 December - White gold miners on the Witwatersrand go on strikeUnknown date :* Dagbreek Men's residence opens its doors to students of Stellenbosch University...
- 19221922 in South Africa-Events:* 10 - 14 March - The Rand Revolt or Rebellion, a strike by White mineworkers which started on 28 December 1921 becomes open rebellion against the state* 15 March - Samuel Long, labour pioneer and striker, is arrested...
- 19231923 in South Africa-Events:* Natives Act imposes segregation in towns* The South African National Congress changes its name to African National Congress* The Electricity Supply Commission is established in terms of the Electricity Act No...
- 19241924 in South Africa-January:* 21 January - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is appointed the 4th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa-June:* 30 June - James Barry Munnik Hertzog becomes the 3rd Prime Minister of South Africa-Births:...
- 19251925 in South Africa-Events:* Afrikaans officially replaces Dutch as the second language after English* The manor house of Groot Constantia is guttered by a fire* 1 May - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales, arrives in Cape Town on a visit to South Africa...
- 19261926 in South Africa-Events:* 13 March - The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town* 10 October - The South African National War Memorial outside Longueval, France next to Delville Wood is opened...
- 19271927 in South Africa-Events:* 20 August - The restored manor house of Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925-Births:* 13 January - Sydney Brenner, biologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, is born in Germiston, Johannesburg...
- 19281928 in South Africa-Events:* May 31 - South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the so-called Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag , to replace the Red Ensign.-Unknown date:* Escom's first thermal power station, Salt River No...
- 19291929 in South Africa-Events:* June 14 - The National Party under James Barry Munnik Hertzog wins the South African general election with an outright majority for their second consecutive term... - 1930s: 19301930 in South Africa-Events:* 19 May White women are enfranchised * The Private Act of the University of Pretoria is passed changing the name of the Transvaal University College to the University of Pretoria-Births:...
- 19311931 in South Africa-Events:* 11 December - Statute of Westminster grants sovereignty to the British dominions* 19 December - The South Africa beat Ireland 8-3 in Ireland...
- 19321932 in South Africa-Events:* 21 September - A new embellished version of the coat of arms of South Africa is approved-Births:* 22 March - Kgadime Oliver Matsepe, novelist and poet, is born in Magagamatala near Groblersdal...
- 19331933 in South Africa-Events:* 29 May - The first consignment of 10,000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives at Cape Town from London on the Union-Castle Line's steamer, Carnarvon Castle-Births:* 13 March - Solomon Sedibane, a sculptor, is born in Sekhukhuneland in Transvaal...
- 19341934 in South Africa-Events:* The Slums Act is passed giving municipalities and the government the authority to acquire slum properties* The Statute of Westminster is ratified in inference by South Africa...
- 19351935 in South Africa-Events:* Cape Town starts reclaiming 480 acres of land on the foreshore* 1 February - The South African Airways, takes over the South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail service between Windhoek and Kimberley...
- 19361936 in South Africa-Events:* The Castle in Cape Town is proclaimed a National Monument* February - Trolley buses begin operation in Cape Town* 7 April - The Representation of Natives Act no 16 of 1936 is passed, the first of a series of laws to diminish the voting rights of non-Whites in the Cape Province* 2 July -...
- 19371937 in South Africa-Events:* Sir Patrick Duncan is appointed the 6th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa* 1 February - The Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union of South Africa and regulating the right of any person to assume a surname, commences.-Births:* 21...
- 19381938 in South Africa-Events:* 1 July - The South African Press Association is established with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Bloemfontein and in Parliament * 16 December - Cornerstone of the Voortrekker Monument laid.-Births:...
- 19391939 in South Africa-Events:*The University of Pretoria's official university newspaper, the Perdeby, is established-September:* 2 September - James Hertzog puts his case to the National Assembly for South Africa to remain neutral in the Second World War against Jan Smuts who supports a Commonwealth alliance* 4... - 1940s: 19401940 in South Africa-Events:* 29 January - The Herenigde Nasionale Party is formed* 11 June - The Union of South Africa declares war on Italy-Births:* 31 January – Kitch Christie, rugby coach who led the Springboks to victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, in Johannesburg...
- 19411941 in South Africa-Events:* May - A 13 year old George Bizos with his father help 7 New Zealand soldiers escape Nazi occupied Greece to Crete* 28 May - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, becomes a Field Marshal of the British Army...
- 19421942 in South Africa-Events:* 5 May-6 November - South African 7th Motorized Brigade and South African Air Force join the allied forces in Operation Ironclad to capture Madagascar-Births:...
- 19431943 in South Africa-Events:* The reclaiming the foreshore in Cape Town starts* Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet is appointed the 7th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa* 500 Polish children arrive in Oudtshoorn from the Soviet Union-Births:...
- 19441944 in South Africa-Births:* 12 January - Eileen KaNkosi-Shandu, educationist and leader of the Inkatha Women Brigade, is born* 3 March - Jerrold Kessel, South-African-born Israeli journalist and author, is born -Deaths:...
- 19451945 in South Africa-Events:* May - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, represented South Africa in San Francisco at the drafting of the United Nations Charter* 22 May - The South African Bureau of Standards is established-Births:...
- 19461946 in South Africa-March:* 12 March - The South African Indian Congress delegation is received by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, in Delhi, India, submitting a petition drafted in consultation with Mohandas Gandhi.** The Indian Representative Act is also repealed....
- 19471947 in South Africa-March:* 9 March - The Three Doctors’ Pact is signed by Dr AB Xuma , Dr Gagathura Mohambry Naicker and Dr Yusuf Dadoo -May:* 4 May - The Natal Indian Organisation is formed...
- 19481948 in South Africa-March:* 13 March - Dr K. Goonam led a batch of twelve passive resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border-May:* 26 May - National Party wins General Elections in coalition with the Afrikaner Party -June:...
- 19491949 in South Africa-Events:* The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act is passed* The South African Postal Services started forcing Europeans and non-Europeans to stand in separate queues in post offices and they are served at different counters... - 1950s: 19501950 in South Africa-May:* 1 May - 18 blacks are killed by police and more than 30 are injured on the Witwatersrand in a massive stay-away from work called for by the African National Congress* 1 May - Springbok Radio, the SABC's first commercial service, is inaugurated-June:...
- 19511951 in South Africa-March:* 30 March - The Group Areas Act which was passed in 1950 becomes law-May:* 14 May - The cabinet voted for the removal of the Coloured people from the voters roll...
- 19521952 in South Africa-March:* 23 March - Ex-regent Mshiyeni, uncle of Zulu King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon, warns the Zulu people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign...
- 19531953 in South Africa-May:* 9 May - The Liberal Party of South Africa is formed in Cape Town by Alan Paton-July:* 29 July - Santam Insurance Company is registered, following the separation of trust and insurance operations-November:...
- 19541954 in South Africa-April:* 17 April - The Federation of South African Women is launched in Johannesburg* 23 April - The Afrikaans-German Culture Union is founded on Pretoria-May:...
- 19551955 in South Africa-January:* Mimi Coertse makes her debut as the First Flower girl in Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Karl Böhm conducting.-March:...
- 19561956 in South Africa-February:* 1 February - The South African government requests the Soviet Union to withdraw its consulates-March:* 16 March - The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 which prohibits any outside gathering that the Minister of Justice sees as a threat to public peace, is passed.* 17 March - Mimi Coertse...
- 19571957 in South Africa-Events:* 30 January - The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy* 16 December - The 45th Annual Conference of the African National Congress is held in Orlando, Johannesburg...
- 19581958 in South Africa-September:* 2 September - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd becomes the 7th Prime Minister of South Africa-December:* 12 - 14 December - The 46th Annual Conference of the African National Congress is held in Durban-Births:* 16 April - John Coulter, composer, is born...
- 19591959 in South Africa-December:* 5 April - Pan-Africanist Congress led by Robert Sobukwe secede from the African National Congress* 9 July - The record for the London-Cape Town flight is set by Wing Commander MJ Beetham flying a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant, completing the journey in 11 hours 27 minutes* 12 December... - 1960s: 19601960 in South Africa-February:*3 February – Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town, receiving a stony reception.-March:...
Republic of South Africa
- 1960s: 19611961 in South Africa-March:* 12 March - The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions submits a memorandum to the United Nations General Assembly calling for economic sanctions against South Africa* 15 March - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth-May:...
- 19621962 in South Africa-January:* Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa for military training with the Umkhonto we Sizwe-March:* 12 March - Defence Minister J.J. Fouche, outlines South Africa's defence policy to make South Africa self-supporting in military equipment-May:...
- 19631963 in South Africa-July:* 2 July - Cameroon closes its airports and harbours to both Portugal and South Africa* 11 July - Lio hi nel Bernstein, Dennis Goldberg, Arthur Goldreich, Bob Hepple, James Kantor, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi, Walter Sisulu and Harold Wolpe,...
- 19641964 in South Africa-June:* Nelson Mandela's original 5 year sentence is commuted for life for high treason in the Rivonia Trial* 5 June - South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna-July:...
- 19651965 in South Africa-Events:* The African National Congress establish its HQ in Morogoro, Tanzania* 8 January - Adam Faith, a British pop singer, cancels his tour of South Africa because the apartheid government prohibited mixed audiences at concerts...
- 19661966 in South Africa-February:* 11 February - District Six, Cape Town is declared a "White Group Area" by the government-March:* 21 March - As a result of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, this day is proclaimed "International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination" by the United Nations General...
- 19671967 in South Africa-January:* January - The African National Congress and the Zimbabwe African People's Union form an alliance for armed struggle against South Africa and Rhodesia-July:* 14-15 July - Snow falls in the Transvaal...
- 19681968 in South Africa-January:* 10 January - Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa-April:* 20 April - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes just after take-off from Windhoek en route to London killing 122 out of the 129 onboard....
- 19691969 in South Africa-April:* 14-16 April - A summit meeting of the leaders of East and Central African States in Lusaka and on the 16th issue the Lusaka Manifesto* 17 April - Dorothy Fisher becomes the first woman and the 5th person to receive heart transplant under Dr Christiaan Barnard* 25 April - 1 May - The... - 1970s: 19701970 in South Africa-Events:* 10 January - The South Africa draws with Ireland 8-8 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland* 21 May - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, hold private talks...
- 19711971 in South Africa-Events:* St Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of Maputaland have been listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ....
- 19721972 in South Africa-Events:* A South African recce team carry out a submarine-borne raid on the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam placing limpet mines on power lines, a bridge and the Rolls-Royce car belonging to the British High Commissioner* The South African Police deploy to South West Africa* Conscription for all...
- 19731973 in South Africa-January:* 8 January - Two South African policemen are killed and two injured in an explosion near the Zambezi River in north-western Rhodesia -February:* 1 February - The Bantustans, Venda and Gazankulu are granted self-government-August:...
- 19741974 in South Africa-January:*4 January - Harry Schwarz met with Mangosuthu Buthelezi signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith, a five-point 5 point plan for racial peace in South Africa.-March:...
- 19751975 in South Africa-March:* 15 March - Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Prime Minister, and senior Ministers visit South Africa for talks* 19 March - The Labour Party wins the second elections to the Coloured Persons' Representative Council...
- 19761976 in South Africa-January:* 5 January - SABC begins country's first television service-March:* 27 March - The South African Defence Force withdraw from Angola and end Operation Savannah-May:* 29 May - Eskom announces that it will order two nuclear power stations from France...
- 19771977 in South Africa-February:*1 February - The Bantustan of KwaZulu is granted self-governance*24 February - A bomb explodes at the Daveyton Police Station, causing only superficial damage-April:...
- 19781978 in South Africa-January:* Former African National Congress member, Steve Mtshali who turned state witness in various trials is shot and wounded-February:* An unexploded bomb "capable of destroying a 22 storey building" is found in a Johannesburg office block and defused...
- 19791979 in South Africa-January:* 8 January - South Africa and Lesotho sign a monetary agreement* 14 January - Police clash with Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas on a farm near Zeerust, one is arrested while 6 escape over the Botswana border... - 1980s: 19801980 in South Africa-January:* 14 January - Local community at Soekmekaar resist forced removal and damage police station* 25 January - Three Umkhonto we Sizwe operatives Stephen Mafoko, Humphrey Makhubo and Wilfred Madela held the staff and customers in a Silverton bank in Pretoria hostage...
- 19811981 in South Africa-January:* 30 January - The South African Defence Force launch Operation Beanbag and raid a suspected Umkhonto we Sizwe safe area in the suburb of Matola, Maputo, Mozambique, killing 12 - 24 people -February:...
- 19821982 in South Africa-January:* 7 January - A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto* 8 January - Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas attack Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town...
- 19831983 in South Africa-January:* 26 January - One person is killed and five injured by a bomb that explodes at the New Brighton Community Council offices* 30 January - A bomb explodes at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court Explosion-February:...
- 19841984 in South Africa-Events:* 8 January - The South African Defence Force begins withdrawal from southern Angola-February:* 3 February - A bomb destroys the offices of the Ciskei consulate in Durban* 23 February - A Escom installation in Georgetown is slightly damaged by explosion...
- 19851985 in South Africa-January:* Three guerrillas and a policeman are killed in a skirmish near Nongoma* 31 January - Pieter Willem Botha, State President of South Africa offers a release proposal to jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela...
- 19861986 in South Africa-January:* A Soweto man throws a grenade at 3 policemen, police retaliate and kill the man* 4 January - Two people are killed and two others injured when their vehicle hit an anti-tank land mine at Stockpoort in the Ellisras area not far from the Botswana border...
- 19871987 in South Africa-January:* 1 January - South African Defence Force servicemen are attacked in Alexandra, Johannesburg and at least one injured* 3 January - Three people are injured when a limpet mine explodes at the corner of Jeppe and Delvers Streets in Johannesburg...
- 19881988 in South Africa-January:*1 January - Nordic countries implement comprehensive sanctions against South Africa and South West Africa which are intended to counteract apartheid...
- 19891989 in South Africa-January:* A Eskom sub-station in Glenwood, Durban is damaged by explosion, later police defuse a second bomb found nearby* Explosion at the home of the chair of the Ministers Council in the House of Delegates in Benoni* An explosion at aircraft factory in Ciskei... - 1990s: 19901990 in South Africa-February:* 2 February - President FW de Klerk scraps apartheid and states that Nelson Mandela will be released** The African National Congress, Pan Africanist Congress and the Communist Party are unbanned...
- 19911991 in South Africa-January:* 9 January - Black children are admitted to schools previously reserved for Whites only.* 12 January - 45 mourners are killed during an attack on a funeral vigil for an African National Congress member...
- 19921992 in South Africa-February:* 3 February - President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader are jointly awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the Unesco headquarters in Paris...
- 19931993 in South Africa-March:* 24 March - The President FW de Klerk informs Parliament that South Africa constructed six nuclear fission devices. He adds that these had been dismantled by the end of 1989-April:...
Post Apartheid
- 1990s: 19941994 in South Africa-February:* 28 February - At midnight Walvis Bay was handed over to Namibia* Bophuthatswana public servants go on strike-March:* 1 March The African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Inkatha Freedom Party leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Durban...
- 19951995 in South Africa-January:* 10 January - General Johan van der Merwe, Police Commissioner of the South African Police Service resigns and is succeeded by General George Fivaz...
- 19961996 in South Africa-February:* Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in his capacity as Grand President of the British Commonwealth Ex-Services League visits South Africa* 26 February - South Africa and Algeria restore diplomatic ties-March:...
- 19971997 in South Africa-March:* 19 March - Denel and Aérospatiale sign a co-operation agreement* 28 March - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa and H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister of India sign the Red Fort Declaration on a Strategic Partnership while Mandela was on a state visit to India-April:* 23 April - Eugène...
- 19981998 in South Africa-January:* 3 January – Six policemen from the North East Rand Dog Unit set their dogs on three suspected illegal immigrants, allowing the animals to savage the three men as the officers hurled racial insults. The incident was caught on video and televised nationally on 7 Nov. 2000, causing...
- 19991999 in South Africa-Events:* 20 March – The Azanian People's Liberation Army , the underground military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress , disbands* 24 March – Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to 8 years in prison for fraud* 31 March – Durban High Court finds... - 2000s: 20002000 in South Africa-February:*Tropical Cyclone Eline brings heavy rains to Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and Madagascar*The Mozambican navy begins evacuating people from low ground using rubber boats donated from last year's floods....
- 20012001 in South Africa-March:* 4 March – Ian Syster wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:13:30 in Durban.* 18 March – The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporated-April:...
- 20022002 in South Africa-January:* 29 January – Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap, generic version of patented AIDS drugs into South Africa in a direct defiance to South Africa's patent laws-March:...
- 20032003 in South Africa-January:* 8 January – Unit 2 Power Generator explodes at Duvha Power Station will coming back on line after service.* 17 January, Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of South Africa hold ceasefire talks with Pierre Nkurunziza, the leader of a faction of the National Council for the Defense of...
- 20042004 in South Africa-January:* 1 January – Asher Karni, an Israeli and South African businessman from Sea Point, Cape Town who is alleged to have supplied nuclear technology to Pakistan, is arrested at Denver International Airport, Colorado-March:...
- 20052005 in South Africa-January:* 13 January – Mark Thatcher pleads guilty to unwittingly bankrolling an alleged coup d'état plot in Equatorial Guinea.* 31 January – Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, has a narrow escape when he is nearly hit by a car shortly after the African Union heads-of-state summit in...
- 20062006 in South Africa- January :* 10 January – 3 miners are killed and 4 others are injured when a magnitude 2.4 earthquake traps 12 miners underground at the TauTona gold mine near Carletonville...
- 20072007 in South Africa-January:* 17 January – South Africa is selected as the host of sub-region's Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre. Included in the sub-region are Angola, Comoros, Madagascar, Mozambique and Namibiabut face-February:...
- 20082008 in South Africa-January:* 12 January – Jackie Selebi is suspended as South Africa's National Police Commissioner as the National Prosecuting Authority states that they will bring charges against him for corruption and defeating the ends of justice....
- 20092009 in South Africa-February:* 4 February – Jacob Zuma appeared in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.* 4 February – Jimmy Mohlala a Mbombela Local Council Municipality speaker was shot dead in his Nelspruit home... - 2010s: 20102010 in South Africa-February:* 24 February – Cezanne Visser, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the North Gauteng High Court.* 24 February – Nersa granted Eskom a 24.8% fee, ....
- 20112011 in South Africa- February :* 9 February – A 600MW generator failed catastrophically while performing over speed testing at Duvha Power Station -March:* 24 March – Henry Gordon Makgothi, teacher, defiance campaigner and 1956 treason trialist June...
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