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E-0084859event In response to Israel’s seizure of Gaza, Egypt closes the Suez Canal and breaks diplomatic ties with the west.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084829event After two months of genocide, the United States agrees to a UN peacekeeping mission to Rwanda after receiving assurances that U1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084828event Zahi Hawass and fellow Egyptologists announce the discovery of a workers’ cemetery and village just beyond Heit el-Shorab (the1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084824event Abel Molokwane (31), executive member of Brits Action Committee, is shot dead in Oukasie, Western Transvaal by unknown gunmen.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084819event The moderator of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Professor Johan Heyns, tells a conference in Harare that the NGK no longer1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084812event Phosphorous bombs are detonated at Algiers University by members of the Organisation de l’Armee Secrete (OAS), a secret (terror1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084781event SA loses the first rugby test match of the series against the British Lions 3-12 on Newlands, Cape Town.1 Jun 2012✓
R-0084762archive ”Trumpet Call to Youth”, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 19441 Jun 2012–
E-0074534event Certificates of citizenship in the ‘homelands’ are to be issued by seven homeland authorities in their respective capitals in t17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074507event Prime Minister Vorster announces that the new Coloured Persons Representative Council will be comprised of forty elected and tw17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074503event Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed after enlarging the Senate and the Appellate Court. It removes Coloure17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074486event Nigeria elects General Olusegun Obasanjo in the first presidential elections after fifteen years of military rule, but the resu17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074476event Amos Boshomane, unionist (SEAWU) of Germiston, is shot dead after having survived an earlier attack on 25 November 1987.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074470event Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074462event Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074460event The Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074455event Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Gen. Redvers Buller break through the Boer lines during the Battle of Pietershoogte.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074440event Defence Minister General Magnus Malan says all activities of the clandestine Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) have been suspende17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074439event All 343 political prisoners on Robben Island begin a hunger strike, signalling the start of a nationwide campaign for the uncon17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074415event A memorial service, attended by several dignitaries, is held for Archbishop Denis Hurley at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart i17 Feb 2012–
E-0074382event The ANC submits its constitutional blueprint to CODESA. It suggests a two-phase transitional period of multiparty rule for fift17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074362event Father Bernard Huss, founder of the first cooperative associations for Black farmers in SA, is born in Wurtemberg, Germany.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074305event Sixteen year old Valliamma Mudaliar dies of a fever contracted in prison while taking part in the Indian passive resistance.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074291event The Star newspaper reports that Defence Minister, Magnus A. Malan, knew as early as 1987 of a secret "hit squad" made17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074274event Khama III (in Tswana: Kgama), paramount chief of the Bamangwato in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana), dies in Sero17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074272event WW1: Battle of Verdun in France begins with a massive German artillery bombardment.   It is the longest and bloodiest battle17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074258event A former president of the Eastern Cape Agricultural Union, Fred Pettit, is stabbed to death in his house near Queenstown.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074209event Unrest among Black workers over wage improvement continues. Police arrest 244 African workers, of whom 169 are subsequently cha17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074182event Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki unveils a statue of Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi Waciuri, hanged by the colonial government more17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074178event Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, is charged with concealing information about a failed coup.   In June, the ch17 Feb 2012✓

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