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E-0089999event Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, is born in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089975event The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089759event Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089739event Nelson Mandela is admitted to the Tygerberg hospital, suffering from a lung ailment, later diagnosed as tuberculosis.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089709event Rebels fighting Congolese President Laurent Kabila capture a power transformer in western Congo, sending the capital, Kinshasa,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091158event The government launches "Operation Iron Fist", imposing curfews, roadblocks, house-to-house searches and fencing off23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091051event Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics14 Aug 2012–
E-0091038event An Olympic opening ceremony, in which the South African team takes part, dazzle downtown Sydney, Australia.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090990event A German Tupolef plane and an American Starlifter collide off the Namibian coast, killing thirty-three people.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090880event Dr Gerrit Viljoen, first rector of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), is born in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090819event Fire breaks out in the Pembroke Castle in Cape Town docks and ten lives are lost.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090735event Venda Reincorporation Forum Act No 5, providing for the re-incorporation of Venda into South Africa, commences.14 Aug 2012–
R-0114977archive Are you part of the big rush to defend New Nation : Make your mark against censorship 22 Feb 2016–
E-0084074event A Legislative Assembly is instituted in the Venda homeland, with partial self-government granted on 1 Feb. 1973.25 May 2012✓
E-0084068event Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian nationalist, returns from exile on Iles de Groix (off the Bretagne coast, France).25 May 2012✓
E-0084045event South Africa joins the Non-Aligned Movement and signs an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with Iceland.25 May 2012✓
E-0083995event Dr. Walter Rubusana (African) and Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman (Coloured) are elected to the Cape Provincial Council.25 May 2012✓
E-0083921event A "day of mourning" protest is planned by non-Whites against the Apartheid government’s latest racial legislation.25 May 2012✓
E-0083906event Ethiopians People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose se25 May 2012✓
E-0083866event Lamar Crowson, later professor at the South African College of Music, is born in Florida, USA.25 May 2012✓
R-0083728archive Desmond Tutu - Extracts from the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 197622 May 2012–
E-0082045event The South African government submits its proposal for an interim constitution for South Africa to CODESA.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082035event Dr Abraham J. van der Merwe (81), chairman of the Van Riebeeck fête committee in 1952, dies.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081924event Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo, pioneer minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and staunch Afrikaner patriot, dies.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081910event Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urges Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081895event The South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded in Windhoek with Sam Nujoma as leader.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081833event Libya joins the United Arab Republic (Egypt, Iraq, and Syria) to form a Federation of Arab Republics.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081815event Rudolph (Duimpie) Opperman, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA), dies in Johannesburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081813event The government presents proposals to improve basic working conditions and encourage greater labour flexibility. Labour Minister13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081800event The South African National Party wins a third successive general election, allowing further introductions of ‘Grand Apartheid’13 Apr 2012✓

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