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E-0083087event The leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is charged in the Pretoria Regional Court with disclosing secre11 May 2012✓
E-0083078event Plans for independence of the Gold Coast (becomes Ghana in March 1957) from Britain are approved by the Colonial Secretary.11 May 2012✓
E-0083054event It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.11 May 2012✓
E-0083049event The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta11 May 2012✓
E-0082912event By this deadline for the receipt of applications for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission almost 8,000 applicatio7 May 2012✓
E-0082902event The Venda National Assembly elects a new state president, Mr Frank Ravele, after the death of Chief Patrick Mphephu in April.7 May 2012✓
E-0082879event Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naude, who resigned as moderator of the Southern Transvaal Dutch Reformed Synod to take up the posi7 May 2012✓
E-0082870event Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The actress, who played the character of  Doob7 May 2012✓
E-0082858event A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir7 May 2012✓
E-0082838event William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro7 May 2012✓
E-0082825event Dr. Jon Lewis, British editor of the South African Labour Bulletin is told to leave the country within thirty days.7 May 2012✓
E-0082777event The Industrial Conciliation Act empowers the Minister of Labour to reserve any job on a racial basis and orders the dissolution7 May 2012✓
E-0082727event The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency7 May 2012✓
E-0082670event Apla claims responsibility for the murder of four police officers at Dobsonville, Soweto, bringing police deaths in the year to3 May 2012✓
E-0082664event The Weekly Mail reports that the Transkei-based Prisoners’ Welfare Programme (PWP) has listed details of forty pending law suit3 May 2012✓
E-0082636event Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe3 May 2012✓
E-0082633event The SA government prohibits Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall because Black children sing it as a song of liberty.3 May 2012✓
E-0082568event At the end of their talks, the ANC and the South African Government issue a joint statement, entitled "the Groote Schuur M3 May 2012✓
E-0082563event Nine people are killed at Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) during a stampede to attend a mass given by Pope J3 May 2012✓
E-0082480event The SA government announces that Gill Marcus, Deputy Minister of Finance, will succeed retiring Chris de Swart as Vice-Presiden30 Apr 2012–
E-0082479event The SA government announces that Gill Marcus, Deputy Minister of Finance, will succeed retiring Chris de Swart as Vice-Presiden30 Apr 2012–
E-0082456event Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste30 Apr 2012–
E-0082400event The SA government announces that Gill Marcus, Deputy Minister of Finance, will succeed retiring Chris de Swart as Vice-Presiden23 Apr 2012–
E-0082382event Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082335event The first  Thirstland Trek, exodus of Boer families through Northern Bechuanaland to Angola that started in 1874 under the lea23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082304event Willem Frederick Gerard Nicolai (66), Dutch composer of the Free State anthem, dies in the Netherlands.   He never visited So23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082221event Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem23 Apr 2012–
E-0082212event Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082128event Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa’s United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082093event The Natal Supreme Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria23 Apr 2012–

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