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E-0090783event The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090745event Johannes de Wet, lawyer, historian and leader in public affairs, also a fervent anti-convict agitator, is born in Cape Town. 14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090729event The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t14 Aug 2012–
E-0083832event General elections in South Africa. The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) comes to power in coalition with th25 May 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-0081941event South Africa’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, dies of a heart attack in Kampala. He was involved in the United13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081902event Johannes Mashego (26) dies in police custody in Parys, OFS. His relatives report extensive bruising and swollen face upon ident13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081723event Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081663event Lucas Ntuba Radebe makes his debut in Kaizer Chiefs in the game versus Durban Bush Bucks, which Kaizer Chiefs won 2-1.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083508event Simon Maswanganye, executive member of the Soweto Civic Association, is allegedly shot by a group of men in a white minibus in18 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-0083300event Pupils at Phefeni Secondary School start boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans in education. The unrest sp14 May 2012✓
E-0083285event Belgian authority in the Congo has almost completely disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country.14 May 2012✓
E-0083246event 240 Mobil workers in the Transvaal strike in protest against Mobil’s alleged failure to negotiate with them over intended disin14 May 2012✓
E-0083230event The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C14 May 2012✓
E-0083178event S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N11 May 2012✓
E-0083168event WWII: The Italian commander-in-chief in Tunisia surrenders a day after his German counterpart, with the Allies holding some 25011 May 2012✓
E-0083147event Inkatha supporters rampage through a squatter camp in the Kagiso Township in the West Rand, killing at least twenty-two people.11 May 2012✓
E-0082755event UN Security Council extends sanctions imposed on Liberia in 2001 for allegedly aiding rebels in Sierra Leone. The sanctions inc7 May 2012✓
E-0082609event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012–
E-0082567event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012–
E-0082566event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012✓
E-0082322event Father Michael Lapsley, a New Zealand-born Anglican priest, loses both hands and an eye in a letter-bomb explosion in Harare. F23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081228event Mk hero Solomon Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081146event De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080995event Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, British philanthropist who influenced British policy in South Africa to a large extent, is born in Es30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079830event Petrus van den Burg, organist of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria and composer, is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlan19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079729event A bomb explodes in front of the post office in Krugersdorp, killing two security guards and injuring at least twenty people.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0070106event T.F. Burgers, state president of the Transvaal (1872), is reburied in Pretoria, nearly fourteen years after his death in Richmo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069884event The Rev. James Murray Louw (70), board member of the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, dies in Boksbur21 Nov 2011✓

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