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E-0083500event A US miscalculation results in one kilogram of plutonium being released into the atmosphere above Africa.18 May 2012✓
E-0083356event During Muslim-Nationalist riots for independence in Nigeria; at least thirty-two people are killed.14 May 2012–
E-0083355event The UN, previously without a permanent home, begins to move into headquarters in New York City.14 May 2012–
E-0083298event James James Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei.14 May 2012✓
E-0083242event The International Olympic Committee bars South Africa from competing in the next Olympic games (1972).14 May 2012✓
E-0083234event ’De Central Westlake Co-operatiewe Landbouw Vereniging’ is founded by forty-five farmers in Klerksdorp.14 May 2012✓
E-0083217event A booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, the wife of ANC official R. Mazimba, in Harare, Zimbabwe.11 May 2012✓
E-0083107event Governor Sir Henry Barkly lays the corner stone of the parliament building in Cape Town.11 May 2012✓
E-0083047event During Muslim-Nationalist riots for independence in Nigeria; at least thirty-two people are killed.11 May 2012✓
E-0083046event The UN, previously without a permanent home, begins to move into headquarters in New York City.11 May 2012✓
R-0082937archive Democratic Transition and Consolidation in South Africa: The Advice of ‘the Experts’ by Raymond Suttner8 May 2012–
E-0082844event King Feud’s government issues a decree making it the sole legal trader of narcotics in Egypt.7 May 2012✓
E-0082839event Sir Howard Carter, English archaeologist who discovered the grave of Tutankamen in Egypt, is born.7 May 2012✓
E-0082744event An ILO tripartite Conference on Action Against Apartheid, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 3-6 May, ends.7 May 2012✓
E-0082601event Nationalist Party wins three by-elections with a larger majority than in the 1958 general election.3 May 2012✓
E-0082539event Natal is proclaimed a British colony. This date is given as 12 May in another source.3 May 2012✓
E-0082500event France declares its support for British interests in the Congo rather than those of Belgium.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082491event Willem Johannes Leyds, attorney-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is born in Java.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082301event The English fleet destroys pirate fleet of Bey of Tunis and releases prisoners in Algiers.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082279event Police confront some 10,000 students demonstrating against rent increases in Soweto and violence ensues.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082260event Dr Hendrik Johannes van Eck, chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation, is born in Kimberley.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082191event Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082166event Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081451event Ten residents are killed in Dudu, Natal South Coast, when unknown gunmen attack the area.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081449event Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko declares a nationwide state of emergency in response to rebel advances.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081153event Barend Hendrik Janse van Rensburg (Ben) (80), founder of the War Museum in Bloemfontein, dies.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081085event Daniël Francois du Toit, founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners, dies in Paarl.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081020event John Harris, who was found guilty of planting a bomb in the Johannesburg station, is executed.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080998event The Midlands Ladies’ Seminary, forerunner of the College of Education, is founded in Graaff-Reinet.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079832event John Stephen Curlewis, chief judge of the appeal court (1936-1938), is born in Paarl.19 Mar 2012✓

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