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E-0092829event Dumisani Makhaye (49), the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Local Government, Housing and Traditional Affairs, dies of cancer in Durban.28 Aug 2012✓
R-0084299archive A Woman’s Place Is In Her Organisation by members of the United Women’s Congress (SPEAK), 11 – 13 August 1989, Johannesburg31 May 2012–
E-0084012event Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes25 May 2012✓
E-0083994event is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Rive25 May 2012✓
E-0083973event US Marines evacuate 900 civilians from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, wracked by looting and violence after a military25 May 2012✓
E-0083895event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on25 May 2012✓
E-0083850event Justice J. Basson hands down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Sethwala, a Black police25 May 2012✓
R-0083731archive Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives’ Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, 11 November 194222 May 2012–
E-0082009event Piet Retief orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers, but meets with violent opposition b23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081921event Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb institute in Worcester, is born.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081904event Ten anti-apartheid demonstrators are arrested outside the South African embassy in London after a meeting marking one year of c13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081843event State President F.W. de Klerk announces plans for a two day multi-party conference and the establishment of a standing commissi13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081769event Bambata Rebellion: General mobilisation of Natal militia, with an appeal to the neighbouring states for assistance. To this, Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081756event Odirile Maponya of Umkhonto weSizwe is killed when a bomb, intended for the Sterland complex, Arcadia, Pretoria, explodes in hi13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081752event The fifteen-year rule of President Hamani Diori in Niger comes to end when he is deposed in a coup.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081740event Richard Owen Dudley, president of the New Unity Movement, 1985, and active campaigner against separate schooling based on colou13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081717event Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081653event The ‘White supremacist’ Rhodesian Front party names Ian Douglas Smith prime minister of Rhodesia. (2004). Today in History, Pre5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081632event Christina Khabe, IFP member and mother of a witness at the Goldstone Commission, is attacked and killed at her home.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081548event Christina Khabe, IFP member and mother of a witness at the Goldstone Commission, is attacked and killed at her home.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083641event Die Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger, and is the second publication of18 May 2012✓
E-0083464event Legislation for three major components of the government’s plans to defuse Black grievances is introduced. Bills provide for ni18 May 2012✓
E-0083458event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev announces a loan of 227 million dollars to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syr18 May 2012✓
E-0083417event Former Mandela United football coach Jerry Richardson is found guilty on all charges, including the murder of teenage activist18 May 2012✓
E-0083395event Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.18 May 2012✓
E-0083288event French government announces a state of national emergency, giving it special powers to deal with the Algerian revolt and associ14 May 2012✓
E-0083262event Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd14 May 2012✓
E-0083165event WWI: General Louis Botha, leading the South African troops, enters undefended Windhoek, capital of German South West Africa, an11 May 2012✓
E-0083090event The Anti-Apartheid Movement in London ends its seventeen-year boycott of Barclays Bank for its South African ties.11 May 2012✓
E-0082846event Five days after Italy captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Mussolini annexes Ethiopia and announces that Abyssinia is7 May 2012✓

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