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E-0089453event Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089330event Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to "maintain31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089262event The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, to which SA is a party,27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089252event President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia calls for Margaret Thatcher to be excluded from the planning of sanctions against South Afri27 Jul 2012✓
E-0086446event WWII: As the Eighth Army abandons Mersa Matruhin, North Africa, Rommel’s forces claim to have captured another 6,000 British t22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086438event The SAPS becomes the first police force in Africa to launch a missing children website (missingkids.com.za), with 800 cases.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086397event Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086385event In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime. The nation’s22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086352event Khedive Ismael (Ismael Pasha) is deposed and replaced by his son Tewfik Pasha due to the considerable international pressure ov22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086333event The Harmful Business Practices Act of 1988 is gazetted ‘to provide for the prohibition or control of certain business practices22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086302event Some 2 500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN. Secretary-General22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086172event The Minister of Finance announces a change in the South African exchange rate practice. Henceforth the Rand is tied strictly to15 Jun 2012–
E-0086169event Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 115 Jun 2012–
E-0086168event Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 115 Jun 2012✓
E-0086167event The General Laws Amendment Bill or ‘Terrorism Bill’, which makes terrorism a separate offence to be equated with treason, is ga15 Jun 2012–
E-0086136event Hendrik Hop, leader of an expedition to the north of the Orange River, is born in the district of Paarl.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086119event The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Report accepts that existing laws enforcing racial separation may have to be review15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086026event Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former mayor in Rwanda, is sentenced to thirty years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086010event The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, announces his decision to appoint a one-man judicial commission in the person15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085981event Up to 5 000 children still serve in the Ugandan armed forces even though they are officially banned from enlisting, a seni15 Jun 2012✓
E-0089138event Dr James Barry, British military surgeon and inspector-general of hospitals (later alleged to be a lady), arrives in Cape Town.27 Jul 2012✓
R-0089017archive Petition to the South African National Convention from” aboriginal natives of South Africa, resident in the Transvaal”, October 22,190820 Jul 2012–
E-0088921event The Cabinet meets to discuss the crisis in the government policy towards the Coloured community, following the capture of the C20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088902event President Mbeki warns against people whose only concern is to accumulate more riches in the Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture at20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088871event Anglo-Boer War 2 -General Marthinus Prinsloo, leader of the Republican forces in the Brandwater Basin, sends an emissary to Gen20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088870event The International Convention with Respect to Laws and Customs of War by Land is signed at The Hague, the Netherlands.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088798event The Security Council urges Member States to adopt a wide range of economic measures against South Africa. The resolution is, ho20 Jul 2012–
E-0088797event The showrooms of two car companies are wrecked in Durban by bombs, believed to have been planted by ANC guerrillas.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088794event The ‘Committee of 10’ formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to hav20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088766event The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an20 Jul 2012✓

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