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E-0089697event The Foreign Minister of France said at a press conference in Nairobi that no new contract for arms sales to South Africa could10 Aug 2012–
E-0091143event The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091097event The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090974event Venda is declared independent in terms of the Republic of Venda Constitution Act 9 of 1979. Chief Mphephu is named as the first14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090933event South African riot police use tear gas and whips in Soweto as unrest continue. A sweeping ban on meetings critical of the Gover14 Aug 2012–
E-0090923event Minister of Defence P.W. Botha announces in Cape Town that the posts of Secretary for Defence and Commandant-General of the Def14 Aug 2012–
E-0084038event A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy25 May 2012✓
E-0083932event France is accused by the Human Rights Arms Project of arming and training the Hutu extremists who organised the genocide in Rwa25 May 2012✓
E-0083830event Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the25 May 2012✓
E-0081906event Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four other women arrive in Harare for three days13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081814event President Mandela, present in his capacity as chief of the Temba clan, rather than Head of State, inaugurates the Council of Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081738event A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081626event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012–
E-0081553event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012–
E-0081542event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083690event The Star reports that the two biggest unions in the financial sector, the 34 000-strong South African Society of Bank Officials18 May 2012✓
E-0083685event The United States Vice President, Walter Mondale and the Prime Minister, John Vorster, meet in Vienna for two days of high-leve18 May 2012✓
E-0083668event Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen18 May 2012✓
E-0083619event The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R8718 May 2012✓
E-0083618event Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home18 May 2012–
E-0083617event Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home18 May 2012✓
E-0083538event Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.18 May 2012✓
E-0083348event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo14 May 2012–
E-0083327event The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.  14 May 2012✓
E-0083321event CODESA II talks, started on the previous day, end in deadlock. The ANC threatens mass action if the government does not comprom14 May 2012✓
E-0083266event Fifty-seven (or seventy according to another source) lives are lost when a gale in Table Bay wrecks eleven (News 24 states eigh14 May 2012✓
E-0083251event Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against14 May 2012–
E-0083238event Amy Johnson arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back.14 May 2012✓
E-0083039event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo11 May 2012✓
E-0082861event According to the headmaster of Pretoria Boys High School, 70% of the teachers and parents are in favour of opening the school t7 May 2012✓

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