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E-0076784event The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) asks the national Olympic committees of Belgium, Great Britain, Japan, the Neth12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076749event Henning J. Klopper, Speaker of the Volksraad at the time of South Africa becoming a Republic, joins the Railways. He is later a12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076744event De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076288event South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.5 Mar 2012–
E-0074731event The largest single construction work undertaken in South Africa, the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (now Gariep Dam) on the Orange River,24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074693event The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074657event The Sowetan reports that Amos Boshomane, a shop steward of the Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa, wa24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074644event The Bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, resigns after having been deported from South Africa in September 1960 for his stro24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074583event South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.24 Feb 2012✓
R-0093470archive Response of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the State of the Nation Debate: National Assembly, 9 February 20067 Sep 2012–
R-0093306archive Remarks at the Closing Ceremony of the Second Session of the South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, 19 October 20015 Sep 2012–
E-0092769event The Prime Minister makes a major policy speech in the Senate, promising that South Africa will contribute its share to order, d28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092518event Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow27 Aug 2012–
E-0092445event Foreign Minister Eric Louw tells the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference that South Africa is not prepared to submit to an27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092407event German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, suspected of complicity in the 2027 Aug 2012✓
E-0092211event The United Nations Special Committee on the Policy of Apartheid at the special meeting urgently demands that South Africa refra27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092083event Zambian postal workers refuse to sort mail from South Africa following a bomb explosion the previous week in which two postal w27 Aug 2012–
E-0091774event South Africa signs treaty with Japan on certain portions of land granted to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Yokohama.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090671event The second rugby test in Kimberley between South Africa and the British Isles ends in a tie, like the first one.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090398event President Hastings Banda, president of Malawi, pays a state visit to South Africa (16-20 Aug.), meeting the State President and14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090343event Faced with an increasingly critical and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090221event The first official commercial air service in South Africa is introduced by Major Allister Mackintosh Miller under the name of U10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090191event Confrontation between South Africa and Transkei over the deportation and return to Transkei of squatters from the Cape Town are10 Aug 2012–
E-0090186event The leader of the Zulu Territorial Authority, Chief Buthelezi, calls for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091633event The United Nations General Assembly votes by 114 votes to two (South Africa and Portugal), with three abstentions (Britain, Fra23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091621event Gen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal. 23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091303event The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) elects its first Black chairman, Ronnie Webb, at the Council’s annual congress23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091273event During a meeting with representatives of the nine member churches of the World Council of Churches in South Africa, Prime Minis23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090026event A US cargo plane carrying 10 tons of food sweeps into Wajir, Kenya, to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089925event The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts10 Aug 2012–

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