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E-0082036event The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081993event The Star reports that Gordon Webster, an alleged ANC insurgent, was found guilty of the murder of a policeman and the attempted23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081871event In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution and acting on the advice of the Transitional Executive Council (TE13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081834event Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 013 Apr 2012✓
E-0081812event The ANC holds a special one-day summit with its alliance partners COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) and the S13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081773event The last general election of the Union of South Africa is held.   The National Party under J.G. Strydom wins 103 seats.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081662event The Star reports that delegates at the annual congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were urged by leading unionis5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081604event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012–
E-0083634event The expedition under August F. Beutler, which left the Cape at the end of February, reaches Boesmans River according to his jou18 May 2012✓
E-0083610event A full bench of eleven judges of the Appeal Court upholds an appeal against a conviction under the Terrorism Act, on the ground18 May 2012✓
E-0083564event Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca18 May 2012–
E-0083563event Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca18 May 2012✓
E-0083422event The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o18 May 2012✓
E-0083392event In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con18 May 2012✓
E-0083281event Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West14 May 2012✓
E-0083255event Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond14 May 2012✓
E-0083207event The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi11 May 2012✓
E-0082887event In preparation for the next general election, two anti-Malan parties are formed: the Federal Union Party and the Liberals (led7 May 2012✓
E-0082866event Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o7 May 2012✓
E-0082856event A Second Defence Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th7 May 2012✓
E-0082831event The new Constitution is finally approved by the 490-member Constituent Assembly, two minutes past 12:00, the final deadline set7 May 2012✓
E-0082756event Concluding its investigation into the crash in the mountains near George in the Western Cape in which former SA cricket captain7 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-0082585event The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the3 May 2012✓
E-0082461event The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the30 Apr 2012–
E-0082444event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a30 Apr 2012–
E-0082388event President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation in Na23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082386event The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the23 Apr 2012–
E-0082370event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082300event Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas23 Apr 2012✓

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