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E-0088907event The SA rugby team plays for the first time against a team of the British Isles, and lose 0-4 in Port Elizabeth.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088906event The diggers on the diamond fields between the Vaal and the Harts Rivers proclaim Klipdrift a republic with Stafford Parker as f20 Jul 2012–
E-0088877event Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, dies near King William’s Town. His first collection of poems, Imihobe20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088870event The International Convention with Respect to Laws and Customs of War by Land is signed at The Hague, the Netherlands.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088838event Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at the public Centennial Olympic Park, killing two people and injur20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088822event The undeclared Korean War ends, after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists against the United Na20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088809event Henry Bathurst (72), British statesman and co-founder of the British Colonial Office, dies.   The town of Bathurst (1820) was20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088766event The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088710event Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088708event A powerful bomb, planted by Frederick John Harris, explodes in the Johannesburg station. One woman is killed and twenty-two (so20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088687event South Africa and the Soviet Union sign a formal agreement in Johannesburg to promote trade between the two countries. The agree20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088685event Thirty IFP members and residents are killed during the period 23-25 July in retaliatory actions between the different parties.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088683event A surprise top-level military meeting between Angola, South Africa and Cuba ends in Cape Verde. The talks follow reports that a20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088681event The last six SA mercenaries from the attempted Seychelles coup are pardoned, freed and arrive in Johannesburg. The Minister of20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085956event The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085955event The resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, is announced and will take effect from 31 July 1972.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085949event The first aircraft hijacking is attempted by Chinese on a flight of Cathay Pacific.  The hijacking failed and the plane crashe15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085942event The Rev. Wilhelm A. Alheit is inducted in the DRC in Colesberg.   He and his daughter drowned in 1910 at Kleinmond.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085910event Marches organised by the African National Congress, SA Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions are held8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085863event The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085853event Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller arrive in Geneva. A meeting is held with twelve South African ambassadors to Euro8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085827event US helicopters and gunships destroy four of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid’s arms depots, one week after his forces allege8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085824event Jabulani Sibisi, Joseph Mthembu, Sifiso Nxumalo and Nkosinthi Thenjekwayo, all ANC members, are shot dead in an ambush near Pie8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085753event Twenty Somalis are killed and fifty more wounded when Pakistani members of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces fire int8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085747event Marais Viljoen, former President of the Senate and acting State President, is elected State President by members of both Houses8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085718event Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud between ANC Youth League and SDU.8 Jun 2012–
E-0085658event Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials open the floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and l8 Jun 2012✓
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-0085612event Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085611event The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t8 Jun 2012✓

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