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E-0084877event A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084863event Britain, France, and the United States use their UN Security Council veto to stop a proposed arms embargo against South Africa.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084862event A proclamation is published in the Government Gazette providing for the detention of offenders for up to three years in rehabil1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084822event The young girl Joan Horn disappears mysteriously in Pretoria. It is believed that her disappearance is connected to the activit1 Jun 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-0084791event Delegates at Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, approve new UN body, Agenda 21, to monitor compliance with environmental t1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084788event ANC leader Nelson Mandela says in Geneva, Switzerland, that SA’s Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074489event Seven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Four SANParks employees are17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074479event Six pupils and teachers are killed and more than eighty injured when the taxi feud spills over to Katlehong schools.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074451event A severe flood strikes Victoria West during the night after a cloudburst in the mountains to the south-west.   More than sixt17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074442event Adriaan Vlok, former apartheid era minister of law and order, applies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty th17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074406event South Africa and Botswana agree to take steps preventing ANC operatives from using Botswana as a transit base into South Africa17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074379event Rival taxi groups attack each other at the Natalspruit Hospital taxi rank, starting a conflict that later spread to other parts17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074373event Twenty-two members of parliament refuse to support a motion of confidence in Prime Minister P.W. Botha at a National Party Parl17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074367event A military coup in Ghana deposes President Kwame Nkrumah while he is out of the country on his way to China. ;17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074323event Cyclone Favio, a powerful tropical cyclone with winds of up to 270km/p surges ashore in southern Mozambique. In Vilanculos, abo17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074314event The Minister of Manpower Utilisation warns that the government is planning to take a tougher line with the rapidly expanding an17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074288event SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074283event Dr Diederichs receives the unanimous vote of the Electoral College, consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament, to beco17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074282event The first general elections to the Ciskei’s Legislative Assembly are held in the territory’s nine districts. There are no polit17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074263event Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074256event Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces a referendum for 17 March  to establish the opinion of White voters towards his political reform17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074042event Kurds occupy and take hostages at the Greek embassies in several European countries to protest Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ca10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074039event Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T10 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-0079658event Pres. P.W. Botha issues a certificate to prevent the Windhoek Supreme Court from trying six SA Defence Force personnel for the16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079541event The SA government announces that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079540event Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079526event Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079489event A special interim report by Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, commissioner at the Paarl riot inquiry, urges swift government action to br16 Mar 2012✓

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