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E-0074244event The Population Registration Bill, read for the first time in Cape Town, recognises three race classifications: Whites, Coloured17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079573event The Prime Minister defends John Vorster’s statement, denying that a constitutional crisis has been created. The two major oppos16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079460event The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079417event Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076807event Sir Joseph Banks, zoologist and botanist, describes the Kompanjiestuin and small zoo at the Cape in his diary.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076769event Struggle hero Dullah Omar and SA transport minister dies in the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in the Western Cape.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076280event During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which five storage tanks are damaged.5 Mar 2012–
E-0074777event Cricket might become a national sport. The ANC recognises sport as the single biggest "healer" in a country torn apar24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074760event Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies. Some 2 000 people are crushed to death in the crowd during the funeral. 24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074656event The US government approves a screening test for Aids that detects antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074575event During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which five storage tanks are damaged.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076163event The Sowetan announces that a new union for health workers, the African Health Workers’ Congress was launched in Johannesburg.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076161event The United Nations General Assembly resolution calls on the Security Council to impose comprehensive sanctions against South Af5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076156event The National Party manifesto reaffirms its belief in separate development programmes for the White, Black, Coloured and Indian5 Mar 2012✓
E-0012042event Gary Player won the US Open golf tournament and became the fourth winner to earn all four top16 Mar 2011✓
E-0010983event The Sand River Convention, under which Britain renounces all claims to authority beyond the Vaal River, is signed.16 Mar 2011✓
R-0095937archive Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion by Sol. T. Plaatje20 Jun 2013–
R-0099165archive Someday, African National Congress May Hit The Target By Joseph Lelyveld (The New York Times), August 16, 198131 Mar 2015–
E-0092764event The Special Political Committee in the United Nations, with South Africa participating, starts debating (23-26 October) South A28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092704event The United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all start recalling their Ambassadors for consultat28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092545event The United Nations Security Council, by fourteen votes to none, with the United States abstaining, passes a resolution reiterat27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092471event The Sudanese government signs a temporary cease-fire with Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092294event Foreign Minister E. Louw defends South Africa’s apartheid policy in the United Nations against African criticism. On the same d27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092235event An attack by Rhodesian Colonial forces on the major stronghold during the Mashona Rebellion, Mashayombe’s kraal, ends inconclus27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092214event The Publications Act replaces the Publications Control Board with an entirely new censorship machine operative at three differe27 Aug 2012–
E-0092089event The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union’s annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092082event Stella Sigcau is elected Transkei’s third prime minister since the SA government accorded the territory independence in 1976. D27 Aug 2012–
E-0092078event Dr. Dawie de Villiers wins the Piketberg, Western Cape, seat for the National Party with a slightly reduced majority.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092002event The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, to which SA is a party, is signed in Madrid.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091934event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British War Office informs the White colonies that they can contribute volunteers, preferably infantry.27 Aug 2012✓

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