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E-0087435event SA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title by beating twins Bob and Mike B28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087372event Identification Act No 72 commences. It repealed the 1952 Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act and la28 Jun 2012✓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-0089551event A number of student leaders at the University of the Western Cape and other community leaders are arrested and detained at Vict31 Jul 2012–
E-0089533event Cassim Mohammed Bassa, estate agent and community leader, is born in India.   He was president of the Natal Indian Blind and31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089521event Cornelis de Houtman lands at Mossel Bay, nine days after rounding the Cape, and barters sheep and cattle from the Hottentots (K31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089401event The Security Council adopts resolution 181 calling upon all States to cease the sale and shipment of arms, ammunition and milit31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089398event Mosibudi Mangena, Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and also president of31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089372event Three ANC members are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089329event Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the31 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-0086481event Archduke Frans Ferdinand, Austrian heir to the throne, and his wife are shot and killed by a student in Sarajevo.   This lead22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086401event Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg.  He was22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086299event A peace summit  (23-24 June) brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086017event Armed hostel inmates shoot and hack their way through the Black township of Boipatong, leaving forty-six people dead and scores15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088882event James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the SACP and president of the South African Colo20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088855event The UN Security Council authorises an urgent airlift of food and medicine for Somalia and demands the cooperation of warring fa20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088732event Prof. Ulrich Gerhard Lauts (78), who reported on the Great Trek and further adventures of the Voortrekkers and who was appointe20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085774event The UN negotiates a ceasefire between Israel and the defeated Egypt, Syria and Jordan, ending the Six-Day War, with Israel occu8 Jun 2012✓
E-0088617event Sen. Johannes (Jan) de Klerk, minister of Education, Art and Science, president of the Senate and father of former Pres. F.W. d20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088473event Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088408event Christoffel Coetzee, SA author and winner of the Eugène Marais and M-Net awards for his novel ‘Op soek na generaal Mannetjies13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088348event Habib Mohamed (A.M.) Rajab, trader and collector of oriental art, and remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street com13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088289event Chamber of Commerce and Industry of USSR and South African Chamber of Mines sign an agreement to promote exchange of informatio13 Jul 2012–
E-0088231event Patrice Lumumba of the Congo breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for13 Jul 2012–
E-0088230event Patrice Lumumba of the Congo breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for13 Jul 2012✓
E-0084903event The Six Day War between Israel and its neighbouring countries Egypt, Jordan and Syria breaks out with Israel launching air stri1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074519event Joint statement of intent by President Mandela of South Africa and President Chissano of the Republic of Mozambique and the pre17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074371event During this and the next two days justice spokesmen for the opposition parties, Radclyffe Cadman for the United Party, and Hele17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074304event A report is released in London about the disappearance of the Waratah between Durban and Cape Town with 211 passengers and crew17 Feb 2012✓

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