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E-0090291event W. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, Pan-Africanist activist and founder of the NAACP, dies in Accra, Ghana.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090183event Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of the SA police, is born in Ermelo, Tvl.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091699event Dirk Mostert, member of the ‘Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging’ (ATKV) (Afrikaans Language and Cultural Organisation) and pol23 Aug 2012–
E-0091698event Dirk Mostert, member of the ‘Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging’ (ATKV) (Afrikaans Language and Cultural Organisation) and pol23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091502event SA signs treaty with Malawi providing for the training of nurses from Malawi in South Africa.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091291event WWI: The Cape Corps, two infantry battalions of Cape Coloured men, captures Square Hill in Palestine.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091286event The Neptune, with 288 convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay amid strong resistance of Cape inhabitants.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090148event Prime Minister John Vorster discloses Government proposals for a new constitutional dispensation. They involve the creation of10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090135event The British colonial government of Kenya broadcasts a call to Mau Mau nationalist guerrilla fighters to surrender.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090112event National Security Amendment Act No 24, empowering the Minister of Justice to lift banning orders, commences.10 Aug 2012–
E-0090097event Beauclerk Upington, advocate, politician, yachtsman and president of the South African Football (Soccer) Association (1913-22),10 Aug 2012–
E-0090024event African National Congress headquarters would remain in Zambia "until the day of liberation", says Zambian President K10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090009event Surfer Shaun Thomson, winner of the World Championship in Hawaii in 1977, is born in Durban.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089759event Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091051event Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics14 Aug 2012–
E-0090880event Dr Gerrit Viljoen, first rector of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), is born in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090735event Venda Reincorporation Forum Act No 5, providing for the re-incorporation of Venda into South Africa, commences.14 Aug 2012–
E-0083921event A "day of mourning" protest is planned by non-Whites against the Apartheid government’s latest racial legislation.25 May 2012✓
E-0083906event Ethiopians People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose se25 May 2012✓
E-0083866event Lamar Crowson, later professor at the South African College of Music, is born in Florida, USA.25 May 2012✓
E-0082035event Dr Abraham J. van der Merwe (81), chairman of the Van Riebeeck fête committee in 1952, dies.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081924event Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo, pioneer minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and staunch Afrikaner patriot, dies.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081833event Libya joins the United Arab Republic (Egypt, Iraq, and Syria) to form a Federation of Arab Republics.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081800event The South African National Party wins a third successive general election, allowing further introductions of ‘Grand Apartheid’13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081765event Hannah Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083536event Jacobus Pieter Verster, chief of the South African Air Force (1967-1975), is born in Boksburg.18 May 2012✓
E-0083410event The Prohibition of Political Interference Act, which bans racially mixed political parties, is to be repealed.18 May 2012✓
E-0083368event SA signs agreement with Namibia concerning the appointment of representatives and privileges and immunities for representatives14 May 2012–
E-0083343event Joachim A. van Plettenberg is sworn in as governor of the Cape after Ryk Tulbach passed away.14 May 2012–
E-0083249event Simon Nxumalo, Chairman of the IFP Alexandra branch is shot and killed in an assassination incident.14 May 2012✓

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