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E-0092817event At least twenty-five people are reported to have died in violence between members of the United Democratic Party and Inkatha in28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092800event The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084084event The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement25 May 2012✓
E-0084041event Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc25 May 2012✓
E-0084038event A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy25 May 2012✓
E-0083932event France is accused by the Human Rights Arms Project of arming and training the Hutu extremists who organised the genocide in Rwa25 May 2012✓
E-0083927event Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as first Black prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as the country is briefly known prior to i25 May 2012✓
R-0083734archive Letter dated 29 January 1952 from the Private Secretary of the Prime Minister, Dr DF Malan to the African National Congress (A.N.C.)22 May 2012–
E-0082060event Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre23 Apr 2012–
E-0082006event Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081973event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, tells the House of Commons that every effort is being made23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081971event The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, and Panmure, are mer23 Apr 2012–
E-0081906event Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four other women arrive in Harare for three days13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081830event In return for the release of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) agrees to take part in negotiations for go13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081794event General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally has the Germans on the ru13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081764event Kenyans dominate the 106th Boston Marathon, winning both men’s and women’s titles and capturing the four top spots and six of t13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081738event A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081553event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012–
E-0083690event The Star reports that the two biggest unions in the financial sector, the 34 000-strong South African Society of Bank Officials18 May 2012✓
E-0083685event The United States Vice President, Walter Mondale and the Prime Minister, John Vorster, meet in Vienna for two days of high-leve18 May 2012✓
E-0083630event An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in18 May 2012✓
E-0083602event The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, pays a two-day visit to South Africa at the invitation of Har18 May 2012✓
E-0083571event Four people are seriously injured after being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr18 May 2012–
E-0083570event Four people are seriously injured after being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr18 May 2012✓
E-0083436event Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near18 May 2012✓
E-0083432event Queen Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in Africa.18 May 2012✓
E-0083424event Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African18 May 2012✓
E-0083251event Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against14 May 2012–
E-0083238event Amy Johnson arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back.14 May 2012✓
E-0083200event Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of adventure books (i.e. King Solomon’s Mines) who worked in SA for several years, dies in Lond11 May 2012✓

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