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E-0085647event Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after8 Jun 2012✓
E-0088357event Palaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in the Olduvai Gorge, northern Tanzania. At first she fo13 Jul 2012✓
E-0084813event The Police Amendment Bill, passed unopposed, empowers the police to search without warrant any person or premises within one mi1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084785event More than one million Black South African workers, following a call by South Africa’s two biggest trade unions, the Congress of1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074410event US marines and Nigerian soldiers blast at snipers in central Mogadishu, Somalia, in a five-hour battle that kills one Somali.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079685event Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079578event The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079361event The ‘Sharpeville Six’ win a one-day stay of execution in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The stay is granted a day before16 Mar 2012✓
E-0092627event The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former ANC member Rocky Ma27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092401event Gen. Sir Redvers Buller embarks at Southampton on board the Dunnottar Castle, one of his fellow-passengers being Winston Church27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092310event The Constitutional Assembly approves final amendments to the new SA Constitution. The changes are approved by 369 votes to one,27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092079event Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after27 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-0090239event An explosion takes place at the Ciskei consulate offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in which one person is injured. I10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091658event Andre P. Brink is one of twenty-eight recipients who receive the country’s highest honours at the eighth presentation of Nation23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091325event In the Athens Paralympic Games, field athlete Fanie Lombaard wins a gold medal (his sixth Paralympic medal, three gold and one23 Aug 2012✓
E-0081992event Business Day reports that two Ciskei security policemen were killed and one injured in April in a shootout near Alice, Ciskei,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0083607event Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af18 May 2012–
E-0083606event Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af18 May 2012✓
E-0083317event Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S14 May 2012✓
E-0083144event A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven. 11 May 2012✓
E-0083086event The Prime Minister announces that eight very important Western intelligence agents, held by the Soviet Union, and one South Afr11 May 2012–
E-0082806event Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b7 May 2012✓
E-0082128event Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa’s United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida23 Apr 2012✓
E-0070141event Ansuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, author, pianist and amateur actress, and one of the first group of25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069643event The Democratic Party officially comes into being at a one-day conference in Johannesburg attended by some 200 delegates from th11 Nov 2011✓
E-0071004event Mercenary coup in Comoros gives up power after twenty-one days. The mercenary leader and ex-presidential bodyguard, Bob Denard,9 Dec 2011–
E-0070984event The Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court. One is reprieved by Lord Charles Somerset, the other, Cornel9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070905event Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia9 Dec 2011–
E-0070854event Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist9 Dec 2011✓

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