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E-0081669event Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC and chairman of the Constitutional Assembly, announces his intention to resign fr5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081559event Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.5 Apr 2012–
E-0083641event Die Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger, and is the second publication of18 May 2012✓
E-0083613event A SADF unit is ambushed at the Cabinda oil refinery in Angola and Capt. Wynand du Toit is taken captive.18 May 2012✓
E-0083552event The South African Olympic and National Games Association (SAONGA) reports that all South Africa’s attempts to secure re-admissi18 May 2012–
E-0083551event The South African Olympic and National Games Association (SAONGA) reports that all South Africa’s attempts to secure re-admissi18 May 2012✓
E-0083549event The English Cricket Council bows to British government pressure and calls off the all-White South African cricket tour.18 May 2012✓
E-0083495event Moss Lebakeng Leoka, executive chair of Makulu Consolidating Holdings and director of several boards, is born in Orlando East,18 May 2012✓
E-0083467event Theophilus Dlodlo, Tutu Nkwanyane and Mildred Msomi, ANC members, are shot dead in a car outside Mbabane, Swaziland. Names of p18 May 2012✓
E-0083458event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev announces a loan of 227 million dollars to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syr18 May 2012✓
E-0083447event The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.18 May 2012✓
E-0083395event Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.18 May 2012✓
E-0083365event Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b14 May 2012–
E-0083349event The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a14 May 2012–
E-0083292event SAA’s Boeing 707 "Windhoek" sets up a new record for the flight between Mauritius and Perth, covering the 3740-mile s14 May 2012✓
E-0083288event French government announces a state of national emergency, giving it special powers to deal with the Algerian revolt and associ14 May 2012✓
E-0083262event Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd14 May 2012✓
E-0083220event Local elections for KwaZulu-Natal are again postponed until 26 June 1996 as a result of persistent violence and administrative11 May 2012✓
E-0083205event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser officiate at the ceremony to blow up a san11 May 2012✓
E-0083182event The mayor of Welkom in the Free State is tarred and feathered after officiating at a multi-racial wheelchair marathon.11 May 2012✓
E-0083181event Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha and Defence Minister Magnus Malan hold talks in Brazzaville, Congo, with an Angolan delegati11 May 2012✓
E-0083152event A rusty freighter teeming with thousands of sick and hungry Liberian refugees is finally allowed to limp into a Ghanaian port a11 May 2012✓
E-0083136event Pik Botha sees his election victory as a mandate to bring about internal change and to move away from discrimination.11 May 2012✓
E-0083125event Sakumzi (Saki) Macozoma, ANC politician, director of various companies and member of several Boards, is born in Port Elizabeth.11 May 2012✓
E-0083123event Immorality Amendment Act No 21 commences, extending the 1927 Immorality Act to all Black people including Coloureds and Asians.11 May 2012✓
E-0083069event Prof. Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe (Boerneef), well-known SA poet and author, is born on Boplaas, district Ceres.11 May 2012✓
E-0083056event Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b11 May 2012–
E-0083040event The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a11 May 2012✓
E-0082904event The Azanian People’s Organisation and the Pan Africanist Congress announce they are to work towards the formation of a patrioti7 May 2012✓
E-0082878event Fydell Edmund Garrett (41), newspaper editor, member of parliament and friend of Cecil John Rhodes, dies in Devon, England.7 May 2012✓

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