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E-0084962event A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s Council. One man is ki1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084850event The Allied Forces land on the beach of Normandy in the largest sea and air operation in the military history of the world.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074438event Thousands of Namibians welcome the head of the UN task force, General Prem Chand, in Windhoek. Chand is in charge of the milita17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074095event Pat Symcox and Mark Boucher set a new world record partnership of 195 runs in the 9th wicket in the test against Pakistan.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074706event The plight of an indigenous community in South Africa, the San, is placed in the spotlight with the launch of a report by the S24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074699event An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Ameri24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076181event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. De la Rey defeats and captures Gen. Methuen in the Battle of Tweebosch (or De Klipdrift) in Western Tran5 Mar 2012✓
R-0112076archive A reply to Livingstone Mqotsi and the anonymous members of the Unity Movement in Zambia by a member of the Unity Movement in South Africa 22 Feb 2016–
E-0092706event Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092327event The National Convention, chaired by Lord Henry de Villiers, Justice in Chief of the Cape, meets for the first time in Durban to27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092315event Ten-year-old Liam Aspeling is snatched from a car by a gang of five in front of his home in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg. T27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091988event Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader seeks Italy’s help in fighting the Br27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091933event The St George’s Anglican Church in Knysna, the first to be built in the town and now a national monument, is consecrated by Bis27 Aug 2012–
E-0091932event The St George’s Anglican Church in Knysna, the first to be built in the town and now a national monument, is consecrated by Bis27 Aug 2012✓
E-0090460event In one of the worst winter storms ever, eighteen ships are wrecked in Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, and fifty-eight lives are lost14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091617event In the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, after23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090042event The first Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field is signe10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090771event Mobutu Sese Seko (66), former president of Zaire, dies in exile in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly 3214 Aug 2012✓
E-0092809event In the United Nations Security Council ‘Pik’ Botha says that South Africa will do everything in its power to move away from dis28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084057event Second sale of land in Johannesburg takes place, on the site of the now-abandoned mining claims in the central city area. See:25 May 2012–
E-0081755event US attempts an air strike at Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi’s home in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083157event The Bulls beat the Sharks on Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria in a Super 14 semi-final game. For the first time in history two South A11 May 2012✓
E-0082747event Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says about 120 police officers died in the course of their duties in the previous year,7 May 2012✓
E-0082613event Two Libyan men plead not guilty to charges that they were involved in the Lockerbie bombing of Panama flight 103 in 1988. The c3 May 2012✓
E-0082608event Business Day reports that President Botha declared in the House of Representatives in May that the ban on the ANC could not be3 May 2012✓
E-0070578event Fires in Cape Town and the Western Cape are ‘out of control’. A woman and two teenagers have burnt to death in Khayelitsha, Cap5 Dec 2011–
E-0070309event The head of the United Nations (UN) commission on Rwanda concludes that genocide in the country in this year cost 500,000 lives25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070221event Lawsuits seeking more than $400bn in damages from US corporations for victims of apartheid in South Africa are tossed out by US25 Nov 2011✓
E-0073682event A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talks with the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072886event The Reza Shah Museum, in honour of Reza Shah Pahlevi, housed in the Johannesburg house where he lived from 1942-1944, is inaugu20 Jan 2012✓

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