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E-0082626event Sathyadranath Rugunanan Maharaj (Mac), National Executive Committee member of the African National Congress, 1985, returns to S3 May 2012✓
E-0082625event ’Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa) is unanimously accepted as only official anthem in Parliament. The Englis3 May 2012✓
E-0082624event Bulelani Ngcuka, SA’s first National Director of Public Prosecutions is born in Middledrift, Transkei.3 May 2012✓
E-0082623event The first regular jet flight  (with a Havilland Comet) leaves London with thirty-six passengers to arrive eighteen hours later3 May 2012✓
E-0082622event Passive Resister reports that the number of Resisters has reached 1 698.3 May 2012✓
E-0082621event King Farouk of Egypt is declared the spiritual leader, or Caliph, of Islam.3 May 2012✓
E-0082620event Egyptian nationalists gain power in the first elections since Farouk succeeded to the throne.3 May 2012✓
E-0082619event Lord Alfred Milner, British colonial secretary and SA High Commissioner, leaves South Africa.3 May 2012✓
E-0082618event Bambata Rebellion: The first skirmish in the Nkandla area takes place under Capt W. Park Grey. Four rebels are killed.3 May 2012✓
E-0082617event Jan Stephanus de Villiers (Jan Orrelis), SA composer and organist, dies in Paarl, Western Cape.3 May 2012✓
E-0082616event The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium3 May 2012–
E-0082614event News24 reports that Iraq is the most dangerous place to be a journalist, followed by Cuba and Zimbabwe, according to the Commit3 May 2012✓
E-0082613event Two Libyan men plead not guilty to charges that they were involved in the Lockerbie bombing of Panama flight 103 in 1988. The c3 May 2012✓
E-0082612event South Africa resumes full membership of the World Health Organisation (WHO).3 May 2012✓
E-0082611event 8 000 workers strike at Barangwanath Hospital, Johannesburg.3 May 2012✓
E-0082610event President P.W. Botha announces that a general election is to be held on 6 September.3 May 2012✓
E-0082609event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012–
E-0082608event Business Day reports that President Botha declared in the House of Representatives in May that the ban on the ANC could not be3 May 2012✓
E-0082607event Cythna Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae and autho3 May 2012✓
E-0082606event Three thousand members of the Congolese National Liberation Front (FNLC) invade Zaire’s Shaba Province from Angola.3 May 2012✓
E-0082605event The Parliamentary Internal Security Commission Bill is approved in the Senate.  3 May 2012✓
E-0082604event Onkgopotse Abram Tiro is expelled from University of the North (Turfloop). Student protests follow his expulsion.3 May 2012✓
E-0082603event Justice Sfiso Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban.   As a child he drew on sand walls.  He received formal art training at t3 May 2012✓
E-0082602event South Africa signs a multilateral procès-verbal extending the declaration on the provisional accession of the Swiss Confederat3 May 2012✓
E-0082601event Nationalist Party wins three by-elections with a larger majority than in the 1958 general election.3 May 2012✓
E-0082600event Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po3 May 2012✓
E-0082599event Henry Cornelius, SA born British movie director, dies.3 May 2012✓
E-0082598event Mau Mau activists in Kenya kill nineteen Kikuyu ‘home guards’.3 May 2012✓
E-0082597event WWII: US supply ships finally reach the British Middle East army at the Suez Canal.3 May 2012✓
E-0082596event Mussolini announces that 400,000 Italians will be going to Ethiopia as settlers.3 May 2012✓

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