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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-0090041event The Board of Executors, the first trust company in the world, is founded in Cape Town10 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-0089955event A mass arrest of 2,000 Nyanga squatters is carried out, under immigration legislation allowing summary deportation.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089825event Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei judiciary from South Africa, commences.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-0091029event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012–
E-0091028event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091009event Khomotso Jacob Makwetla, accredited public relations practitioner and chair/director/member of several companies and corporatio14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090942event Lindi Memani, SA straw-weight champion, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Union.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090909event The ‘Chartered Company’ hoists the Union Jack at what is now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090880event Dr Gerrit Viljoen, first rector of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), is born in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090812event Charges are withdrawn unexpectedly against Johan Meyer, a Gauteng businessman arrested on 2 September on charges of allegedly b14 Aug 2012✓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-0084063event Jan F.E. Cilliers (70), SA poet of “Die Vlakte” and other poems, dies in Harrismith, OFS.25 May 2012✓
E-0083940event Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria’s first civilian president in fifteen years, ending a string of disastrous military regimes.25 May 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-0083871event Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta is elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya.25 May 2012✓
E-0083866event Lamar Crowson, later professor at the South African College of Music, is born in Florida, USA.25 May 2012✓
E-0083861event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal River and occupies the town of Vereeniging.25 May 2012✓
E-0083826event Seven ships are wrecked, with the loss of ten lives, at the Buffalo River, East London.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-0082000event A devastating veld fire near Plettenberg Bay claims six lives and destroys 220 000 hectare of vegetation.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081934event Riaan Eksteen, head of SABC is relieved from his post following a political row with Pres. Botha.13 Apr 2012✓

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