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E-0084964event Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa for a thirteen-nation international tour.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084963event President Botha visits Sharpeville.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084962event A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s Council. One man is ki1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084961event The Supreme Court rules that the statement of Neil Aggett is admissible as evidence.1 Jun 2012–
E-0084960event The Supreme Court rules that the statement of Neil Aggett is admissible as evidence.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084959event Petrus Nzima and Jabu Nzima, both ANC members, are killed by a car bomb in Mbabane, Swaziland.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084958event A senior ANC member, P. Nyaose and his wife, are killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. Alfred Nzo, the ANC Secretary-General, blam1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084957event Revised figures for the Defence Budget indicate the funds available to the South African Defence Force have been increased to R1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084956event The Protection of Information Act is given Presidential Assent. Under threat of heavy penalties the Act implicitly places the o1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084955event Patrick Makau, ANC/MK, and his child (9) are killed in a bomb attack on two houses in Manzini, Swaziland.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084954event Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings seizes power in his first military coup in Ghana.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084953event Balthazar Johannes Vorster, non-executive president of South Africa, resigns after only eight months in office (he had previous1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084952event Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer, choir conductor and organist, dies in East London.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084951event Despite the official announcement of the end of the Shaba War by the Zairian government last year, Moroccan troops are to be ai1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084950event A five-year restriction order is served on Father S. Mkhatshwa, Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084949event Severe drought is reported in Ethiopia, over 800,000 people are in urgent need of supplies.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084948event Over four thousand French troops are to be withdrawn from Madagascar at the request of Gabriel Ramanantsoa, the head of the rec1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084947event The Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, accompanied by General Hiemstra, Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force a1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084946event Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s troops kill over 100 students during a demonstration in the Congolese capital Kinshasa.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084945event Senator Robert Kennedy arrives in South Africa as the guest of NUSAS.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084944event SA signs agreement with Great Britain for the temporary suspension of the margin of preference on tin plate.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084943event The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hassim Jawad, announces that Iraq will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084942event Egypt announces it will not extend Suez Canal Company’s concession after expiration in 1956, leading to Suez Crisis.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084941event Dr Hugo Gutsche, missionary, school inspector, composer and chief editor of the FAK-Volksangbundel, dies.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084940event Uwe Pfaff, S.A. artist, is born in Rye, Denmark. He emigrated to SA in 1970.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084939event Dr G.M. Naicker, President of Natal Indian Congress (NIC), warns that any Indian who accepts membership in the Land Tenure Advi1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084938event Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084937event Christina Pretorius, wife of Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, dies near Warmbad (now Bela-Bela).1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084936event Leopold Marquard, SA educationist and missionary, is born in Westphalia, Germany.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084935event Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he1 Jun 2012–

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