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E-0087552event The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million di28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087495event Granny Maloko Temo of Mantata near Dendron, eldest person in SA and allegedly eldest in the world, celebrates her 130th birthda28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087483event Because a select committee to inquire into and report on certain organisations has not completed its task at the end of the par28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087468event The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper hand and Cetsh28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087462event SA tennis player Liezel Huber and Cara Black of Zimbabwe win the women’s doubles on Wimbledon. Huber also reached the semi-fina28 Jun 2012–
E-0087428event President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa’s constitution from 75 per cent to28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087405event African slaves being shipped to Cuba, revolt and seize the ship Amistad, leading to the eventual end of the African slave marke28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087404event Jean Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher and author, whose influence was felt in the Cape Colony, dies. At the time of his dea28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087376event Brigadier Hertzog Lerm, up to now commissioner of the Ndebele Police Force who also acted as private secretary to the chief min28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087369event Helen Joseph, who has been under a series of banning orders since she became the first South African to be placed under house a28 Jun 2012✓
R-0086991archive SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCE LIAISON COUNCIL (Delivered on his Behalf by Deputy Minister Kasrils)27 Jun 2012–
R-0086644archive Press statement by Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC, at the ANC/NP Summit meeting, World Trade Centre Johannesburg, 26 September 199227 Jun 2012–
E-0089610event About 150 residents are killed (1215 August) during the forced expulsion of non-IFP from hostels and attacks on Phola Park squa31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089571event Clashes among local militias, a rebel group and the Ugandan army kills at least ninety people. The victims, many of whom had be31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089442event Helen Elizabeth Martins, artist known for her queer sculptures at the Owl House in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda dies in h31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089414event In a joint statement released by the ANC and the government, the ANC announces the suspension of its thirty-year-old armed stru31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089381event Friends Of The Earth offers to pay for Environment Minister Michael Meacher to attend the Earth Summit in South Africa after re31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089377event Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089234event Erasmus Smit, controversial preacher of the Voortrekkers, dies one day after his 85th birthday and one week after his wife, Sus27 Jul 2012✓
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–

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