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E-0083657event British prime minister Margaret Thatcher still refuses to impose sanctions on South Africa despite reports of yesterday’s raids18 May 2012✓
E-0083650event A referendum in the Cameroons approves the country’s change from a federation into a unitary state, the United Republic of Came18 May 2012✓
E-0083612event A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals.18 May 2012–
E-0083611event A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals.18 May 2012✓
E-0083595event Three Bills dealing with the future of the Coloured population are passed: The Coloured Persons-Representative Council Amendme18 May 2012–
E-0083594event Three Bills dealing with the future of the Coloured population are passed: The Coloured Persons-Representative Council Amendme18 May 2012✓
E-0083525event Arthur Conan Doyle, medic during Anglo-Boer War 2 and subsequent author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, is born.18 May 2012✓
E-0083498event General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Algiers formally recognises the Algerian juntas.18 May 2012✓
E-0083427event Human rights organisation Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 118 May 2012✓
E-0083402event Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho18 May 2012✓
E-0083373event Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.14 May 2012–
E-0083342event The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.14 May 2012–
E-0083310event The Advocate General Bill is introduced by L. Muller, Minister of Transport, against strong opposition from the Progressive Fed14 May 2012✓
E-0083289event Dr. Jan Steytler, leader of the Progressive Party, launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill14 May 2012✓
E-0083272event The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) resolves to declare war on Chief Sekhukhune. Presiden14 May 2012✓
E-0083236event Abraham J. Kotzé, missionary in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), dies of pneumonia shortly before his return to SA.14 May 2012✓
E-0083210event Patrick Laurence, journalist from the Star, was charged with contravening the Suppression of Communism Act by publishing a stat11 May 2012✓
E-0083208event The International Court of Justice at The Hague rejects the government’s application that a plebiscite be organised in Namibia11 May 2012✓
E-0083206event Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever (58), SA author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, dies.11 May 2012✓
E-0083097event The chairman of a PAC disciplinary committee announces that former party President Clarence Makwetu has been expelled from the11 May 2012✓
E-0083088event South Africa’s longest serving White political prisoner, David Kitson, is released, seven months short of completing his twenty11 May 2012✓
E-0083064event Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.11 May 2012✓
E-0083033event The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.11 May 2012✓
E-0082898event Jabulani Maluleke, secretary of the COSAS Soweto branch, disappears after allegedly being arrested by railway police while retu7 May 2012✓
E-0082824event Qaquawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela, all of them activists, disappear after allegedly being escorted to a waiti7 May 2012✓
E-0082820event John Vorster declares that he has personally authorised the Department of Information to use secret funds without Parliamentary7 May 2012✓
E-0082814event R.H. Strachan is found guilty of conspiring to cause bomb explosions and is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.7 May 2012✓
E-0082810event WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet launches Op7 May 2012✓
E-0082779event The Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, announces in Parliament that Local Authorities must is7 May 2012✓
E-0082750event Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali applauds the election process in South Africa as a peaceful expression of the people’s7 May 2012✓

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