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E-0081769event Bambata Rebellion: General mobilisation of Natal militia, with an appeal to the neighbouring states for assistance. To this, Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081759event Governments across the world apply United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destru13 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-0081744event Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the African National Congress in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the Black13 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-0081730event Thomas Francois Burgers, state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is born on the farm Langfontein, Graaff-Rein13 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-0081709event Seven hundred political prisoners are released in Algeria on the orders of the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.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-0081647event William H. Bell (Daddy Bell) (72), SA musician and composer of three symphonies and two operas, dies in Gordon’s Bay.5 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-0083673event On behalf of the British government Sir Arthur Havelock, the Natal governor, annexes Zululand.   The date is respectively giv18 May 2012✓
E-0083671event The Rev. Willem Johannes Conradie, author of the first Afrikaans Bible retold for children, is born in Murraysburg, CC.18 May 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-0083577event The Rev. Erasmus Smit ordains himself as minister of the “reizende gemeente der Gereformeerde Kerk naar Port Natal” (travelling18 May 2012✓
E-0083548event Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser threatens to close the Tiran Strait, on the Gulf of Aqaba, to Israeli shipping.18 May 2012✓
E-0083533event American Secretary of State Hay warns Moroccan authorities that Perdicaris must be brought back alive, or his abductor, Raizuli18 May 2012✓
E-0083471event World Bank Vice President, Edward Jaycox, announces that the Bank has $1 billion worth of development projects in the pipeline18 May 2012✓
E-0083467event Theophilus Dlodlo, Tutu Nkwanyane and Mildred Msomi, ANC members, are shot dead in a car outside Mbabane, Swaziland. Names of p18 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-0083463event The leadership of the Herstigte Nasionale Party is relinquished by its veteran founder, Dr. Albert Hertzog. The deputy leader,18 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-0083365event Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b14 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-0083220event Local elections for KwaZulu-Natal are again postponed until 26 June 1996 as a result of persistent violence and administrative11 May 2012✓

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