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E-0086406event Makgatho Mandela, Mandela’s second and only living son from his marriage to Evelyn, is born on the National Day of Protest and22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086404event Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086370event The final report by Justice Snyman on the Paarl Riots is submitted to Parliament. It analyses the main causes of the riots.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086206event The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers.  Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086189event The South African Parliament votes to amend the Internal Security Act No. 74 of 1982. Police will in future need the permission15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086146event Britain annexes the rest of Zululand. Dinuzulu is subsequently banished to St Helena. This date is given as 19 May 1887 by15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086134event Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085983event Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he15 Jun 2012–
R-0089019archive Petition to the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from the Traskeian Territories General Council, June 21, 190920 Jul 2012–
E-0088963event The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, states at a Nationalist Party meeting that he is not prepared to lift the ninety-day det20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088951event At the end of a damaging six-day strike of cabin crew and ground staff, SOUTH African Airways (SAA) undertakes to improve the w20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088927event South Africa has held up supplies of British weapons to Lesotho and the UK has complained several times about the delays, offic20 Jul 2012–
E-0088891event The government is reported to have paid the family of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, R65, 000 in settlement of claims20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088864event The name of the Mid-City Library (Sammy Marks), city library of Pretoria, is changed to Eskia Mphahlele Library and the Sammy M20 Jul 2012–
E-0088840event Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088834event A Korean Air DC-10 crashes in heavy fog while attempting to land at Tripoli airport in Libya, killing eighty-two people, four o20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088754event Senior ANC member, ‘Mac’ Maharaj and over forty other members of the ANC and the SACP, are detained for allegedly attempting to20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088733event The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088722event In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085852event SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085831event Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085684event Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re8 Jun 2012–
E-0085636event WWII: The 6th SA Armoured Division, having reached the watershed of Castiglione dei Pepoli in Italy, pushes forward to take Mon8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085626event The Directors of the Dutch East India Company (Heeren XVII or Lords Seventeen) propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possib8 Jun 2012✓
E-0086504event The Council of Ministers of the OAU issues a resolution calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the is22 Jun 2012✓
E-0088589event Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey, the first French Resident General of Morocco, dies in France. His body is to be interred at Rabat20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088467event A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088462event In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088415event Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary is born. In 1898 he led the first party of five missionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088337event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t13 Jul 2012✓

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