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E-0083131event Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die11 May 2012✓
E-0083120event Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge11 May 2012✓
E-0083086event The Prime Minister announces that eight very important Western intelligence agents, held by the Soviet Union, and one South Afr11 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-0083065event The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei11 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-0082864event Nelson Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly.7 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-0082728event Irene Charnley, Executive Director of Johnnic, trustee of several funds and winner of the Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000,7 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-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-0082498event William C. Oswell, White scout who saw the Victorian Falls for the first time with Livingstone, dies in Turnbridge Wells, Engla30 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-0082328event Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world’s largest producer of AIDS drugs, announces it will reduce the price of its popular AI23 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-0082252event The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081472event Though the government refused to comply with the ANC ultimatum issued on 5 April, defence minister Magnus Malan offers to resig5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081442event The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081231event The first genocide trials begin in Kigali, Rwanda, against some of the 30 000 majority Hutus accused of killing Tutsis.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081213event Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081166event Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081140event Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081134event The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081073event Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081064event Fedics (Pty) Ltd, the largest Black-owned company in South Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the bulk of Telkom’s30 Mar 2012–

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