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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-0089173event SA closes its consulate in Wellington after the New Zealand prime minister cuts diplomatic ties because of SA’s racial segregat27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089172event The Kenyan Air Force disbands following an attempted coup by non-commissioned officers in which 159 died.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089171event Joe Gqabi, chief ANC representative, is killed in Harare by a car bomb.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089170event Public Security Amendment Act No 6, making further amendments to state security legislation and allowing for greater control by27 Jul 2012–
E-0089169event A strike by Black municipal workers in Johannesburg ends when police supervise the removal of over 1,000 dismissed men.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089168event An order has been issued withdrawing the remaining South African Police from Rhodesia.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089167event The government expands its defence potential by enrolling Blacks for defence services. This policy has the support of ‘homeland27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089166event It is officially announced that the police’s counter-insurgency potential will be increased by the establishment of a long-serv27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089165event SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089164event A High Court is established in Umtata, capital of the Transkei.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089163event The Ciskei is given self-government. Chief Justice Mabandla becomes Chief Minister, and the heads of the territory’s six depart27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089162event John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour27 Jul 2012–
E-0089161event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, outlines the government’s homelands policy in Pretoria. He de27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089160event South Africa signs treaty with Malawi relating to the employment and documentation of Malawi nationals in South Africa.27 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-0089158event Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah escapes an assassination attempt when a hand grenade is thrown into a crowd greeting him. The d27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089157event Benin (formerly Dahomey) proclaims its independence from France.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089156event The Nasionale Bouvereniging (National Building Society) is founded as result of a joint effort of Volkskas and Sanlam.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089155event Trial of ninety-one defendants on charges of high treason opens.27 Jul 2012–
E-0089154event Blacks Resettlement Act No 19 commences.27 Jul 2012–
E-0089153event Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia becomes a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. 27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089152event N.C. Havenga’s Afrikaner Party joins the National Party under Dr D.F. Malan and becomes the Herenigde National Party.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089151event Air Force Base Waterkloof is founded with two hangars, a runway and No’s 1 and 2 Fighter-bomber Squadrons and No 3 Communicatio27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089150event Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, the last to be held for the next twelve years. SA also competed.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089149event The South African Broadcasting Corporation is inaugurated, set up in terms of the Broadcasting Act (Act no 22 of 1936). It broa27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089148event The Second Polar Year Project (1 August 1932-31 August 1933) starts. The Union Weather Services of South Africa renders valuabl27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089147event Reginald Rooseveldt MacIntyre Ndumiso Cingo, evangelist and educationist who was headmaster of the first secondary day school f27 Jul 2012–
E-0089146event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British parliament votes an additional £12 500 00 for munitions.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089145event Anglo-Boer War 2: Sir G. Lagden, formerly Resident Commissioner in Basutoland, is appointed by the British as the Commissioner27 Jul 2012✓

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