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E-0089206event Having held talks on the escalating crisis over control of the Suez Canal with France and the US, Britain mobilises its forces.27 Jul 2012–
E-0089205event Having held talks on the escalating crisis over control of the Suez Canal with France and the US, Britain mobilises its forces.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089144event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co27 Jul 2012✓
E-0086475event The Supreme Court of Appeal refuses to allow the Western Cape education MEC to compel an Afrikaans-medium school, Mikro, in Kui22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086473event The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applies to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared null22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086439event Josephus Suasso de Lima, editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, De Verzamelaar, is born in Amsterdam, the Net22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086416event Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and Gen. J.C. Smuts, dies in Stell22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086406event Makgatho Mandela, Mandela’s second and only living son from his marriage to Evelyn, is born on the National Day of Protest and22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086370event The final report by Justice Snyman on the Paarl Riots is submitted to Parliament. It analyses the main causes of the riots.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086364event The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086339event Gangsters turn out in force at the Winterveld Cemetery and disrupt the funeral of Dr Masuku, a former ANC activist and anti-cri22 Jun 2012–
E-0086206event The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers.  Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086191event Gerda Theron, mother of Charlize Theron, shoots her husband in their home in Benoni.   The court later found that she did it15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086146event Britain annexes the rest of Zululand. Dinuzulu is subsequently banished to St Helena. This date is given as 19 May 1887 by15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086134event Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086011event The Status of the Transkei Bill passes its second reading in the Senate, despite opposition from the United Party and the Progr15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085979event Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical practitioner assassinated with his wife by state agents in 1986, is awarded the Order of the Su15 Jun 2012–
E-0085967event John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren15 Jun 2012✓
E-0089137event The British fleet under Lord Nelson defeats the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, at Aboukir Bay, Egypt, thus thwarting N27 Jul 2012✓
E-0088985event The Namibian soccer team beats the SA Bafana Bafana 4-1 in Windhoek, thereby entering the semi-final round of the Cosafa Cup Se20 Jul 2012–
E-0088984event The Namibian soccer team beats the SA Bafana Bafana 4-1 in Windhoek, thereby entering the semi-final round of the Cosafa Cup Se20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088963event The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, states at a Nationalist Party meeting that he is not prepared to lift the ninety-day det20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088927event South Africa has held up supplies of British weapons to Lesotho and the UK has complained several times about the delays, offic20 Jul 2012–
E-0088886event Edward Motale, SA soccer player who was awarded the accolade, ‘Footballer of the Season 95’ by Kick Off, is born in Pretoria. (20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088754event Senior ANC member, ‘Mac’ Maharaj and over forty other members of the ANC and the SACP, are detained for allegedly attempting to20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088733event The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088723event Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088700event Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088669event An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088636event The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Ma20 Jul 2012✓

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