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E-0083447event The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.18 May 2012✓
E-0083418event 15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.18 May 2012✓
E-0083417event Former Mandela United football coach Jerry Richardson is found guilty on all charges, including the murder of teenage activist18 May 2012✓
E-0083406event René de Villiers, member of parliament for Parktown, draws the attention of Deputy Minister of Bantu Education, Dr A.P.18 May 2012✓
E-0083395event Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.18 May 2012✓
E-0083357event Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem14 May 2012–
E-0083349event The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a14 May 2012–
E-0083341event Four British tourists escape unharmed when the Moroccan hotel they are staying in is damaged in a terrorist bomb attack.14 May 2012✓
E-0083332event Malawi voters stream from impoverished villages to take part in the first multiparty election in three decades. Kamuzu Banda, o14 May 2012✓
E-0083288event French government announces a state of national emergency, giving it special powers to deal with the Algerian revolt and associ14 May 2012✓
E-0083283event Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J14 May 2012✓
E-0083262event Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd14 May 2012✓
E-0083212event Communist-backed Katangan gendarmes, who had been living in neighbouring Angola, have invaded the region around Kolwezi in sout11 May 2012✓
E-0083205event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser officiate at the ceremony to blow up a san11 May 2012✓
E-0083186event An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.11 May 2012✓
E-0083177event Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi, premier of Libya, predicts the use of oil trading restrictions as a form of Arab nationalistic protec11 May 2012✓
E-0083165event WWI: General Louis Botha, leading the South African troops, enters undefended Windhoek, capital of German South West Africa, an11 May 2012✓
E-0083145event An International Labour Organisation report says South Africans are becoming poorer each year because of the cost of maintainin11 May 2012✓
E-0083123event Immorality Amendment Act No 21 commences, extending the 1927 Immorality Act to all Black people including Coloureds and Asians.11 May 2012✓
E-0083113event ”De Nationale Pers” forerunner to Tafelberg Publishers is registered as a company. Six years later the name was translated into11 May 2012✓
E-0083090event The Anti-Apartheid Movement in London ends its seventeen-year boycott of Barclays Bank for its South African ties.11 May 2012✓
E-0083048event Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem11 May 2012✓
E-0083040event The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a11 May 2012✓
E-0082914event Two Bengal tigers mangle Francois Cupido when he takes a short cut through the Queens Park zoo in East London.7 May 2012✓
E-0082903event Helene Pastoors, the Belgian national sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1986 for treason, is released from prison followi7 May 2012✓
E-0082882event Peter Schütz, S.A artist, is born in Glogau, East Germany. His family emigrated to SA in the early fifties.  7 May 2012✓
E-0082846event Five days after Italy captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Mussolini annexes Ethiopia and announces that Abyssinia is7 May 2012✓
E-0082815event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev arrives in the United Arab Republic to meet with Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nass7 May 2012✓
E-0082807event Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, SA ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former SA Minister of Education7 May 2012✓
E-0082774event World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d7 May 2012✓

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