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E-0084012event Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes25 May 2012✓
E-0083994event is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Rive25 May 2012✓
E-0083973event US Marines evacuate 900 civilians from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, wracked by looting and violence after a military25 May 2012✓
E-0083965event The Minister of Justice announces that the Christian Institute has been declared an affected organisation under the Affected Or25 May 2012✓
E-0083941event Ethiopia’s warplanes bomb a military airstrip on the outskirts of Asmara, taking its 2-week-old offensive to the Eritrean capit25 May 2012✓
E-0083933event Local elections held in the Western Cape result in the National Party securing control of all three district councils.25 May 2012✓
E-0083895event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on25 May 2012✓
E-0083876event The prime minister rejects the idea of a ‘canton’ system saying it is certainly not practical politics at this stage.25 May 2012✓
E-0083850event Justice J. Basson hands down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Sethwala, a Black police25 May 2012✓
R-0083731archive Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives’ Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, 11 November 194222 May 2012–
E-0082009event Piet Retief orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers, but meets with violent opposition b23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081921event Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb institute in Worcester, is born.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081912event In Kisangani, Zaire, rebel leaders bloc a massive U.N. airlift of Rwandan refugees, insisting that impassable roads be fixed an13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081904event Ten anti-apartheid demonstrators are arrested outside the South African embassy in London after a meeting marking one year of c13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081899event Guerrillas launch two separate raids in the far south of Rhodesia near the Transvaal border, killing three Easter holidaymakers13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081873event In a meeting with a representative of Lockerbie victims, Colonel Gaddafi agrees to hand over two suspects for trial by a Scotti13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081837event Rebels opposed to the Marxist Government of Mozambique claim responsibility today for cutting power lines from the Cabora Bassa13 Apr 2012✓
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-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✓

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