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E-0086028event Leonid Shvetsov of Russia sets a new recod of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 Comrades Marathon Down15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086022event South African White extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche is sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder a Black man and assau15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086011event The Status of the Transkei Bill passes its second reading in the Senate, despite opposition from the United Party and the Progr15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085983event Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he15 Jun 2012–
E-0085979event Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical practitioner assassinated with his wife by state agents in 1986, is awarded the Order of the Su15 Jun 2012–
E-0085967event John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088924event Following decisions by the ‘Committee of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088891event The government is reported to have paid the family of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, R65, 000 in settlement of claims20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088840event Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088733event The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088669event An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088636event The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Ma20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085828event A deal is proposed between the IFP and the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal aimed at stopping the conflict. The initiative has brought a de8 Jun 2012–
E-0085802event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The two-day Battle of Diamond Hill or Donkerhoek, started on the previous day, ends when darkness sets in a8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085785event The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BAAM) holds an 11-hour rock concert at Wembley Stadium in London to pay tribute to Nelson8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085722event Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.8 Jun 2012–
E-0085684event Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re8 Jun 2012–
E-0085681event Voters in South-West Africa/Namibia go to the polls to vote for a constituent assembly, which is to draw up a new constitution8 Jun 2012–
E-0088589event Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey, the first French Resident General of Morocco, dies in France. His body is to be interred at Rabat20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088477event This Day reports Premier S’bu Ndebele of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an urgent investigation into bombs discovered in the legislat13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088467event A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088458event The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, makes a statement in the House of Commons on the question of arms for Sou13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088415event Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary is born. In 1898 he led the first party of five missionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088365event British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock is held at gunpoint by security forces in Zimbabwe when his plane lands at the ‘wrong’13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088345event Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant-Colonel M.O. Little, commanding the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of 738 mounted men, is ordered in the direc13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088294event A grenade attack is launched on the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg. It is blamed by the ANC on a ‘third force’, and is linked13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088221event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie13 Jul 2012✓
R-0088074archive News Report and Resolution of the Conference of Chiefs and Leaders in the Cape Province Convened by the Government, September 18, 193511 Jul 2012–
E-0085048event The State President commutes the death sentences on three Black men, for their part in the attack on the Soekmekaar Police Stat1 Jun 2012✓
E-0085025event Anglo-Boer War 2: British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour reads the terms of surrender to the House of Commons in London after th1 Jun 2012✓

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