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E-0079660event Heads of Egypt, Jordan and Palestine Liberation Organisation meet to co-ordinate Middle East peace strategy.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079623event Dinzy Maphumulo, stepfather of Chief Maphumulo, is shot dead at his home in Table Mountain, Natal.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079565event Makgabo Rufus Maruma, world respected Tourism, Environmental and Waste Management expert and founder of Bohlweki Environmental16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076809event Jan Stephanus de Villiers, organist and first South African composer of importance, is born in Paarl.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076246event ’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076238event Venda Police Act No 4, creating a police service and granting policing powers of search and seizure, commences.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0092754event Karl Kielblock, SA author of historical and detective books, is born in Beaufort West, Cape Colony.28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092588event A team of twelve Commonwealth observers, including high-ranking officers from military and police, a former Government Minister27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092238event Congress of South African League is opened in Cape Town by its president, Cecil John Rhodes.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092197event Léopold Sédar Senghor  poet, teacher, and statesman, first president of Senegal (1960-1980), and a major pro27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092085event Minister of Manpower Eli Louw announces that in future Workers’ Day would always be on 1 May.27 Aug 2012–
E-0091914event Political assassination: Three guards of an ANC lawyer are shot dead by eight men in Durban.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091851event Walter Sisulu attends a function (1-2 October) in Orlando in honour of Lillian Ngoyi, recently returned from Russia.24 Aug 2012✓
E-0090554event Bloodshed, looting and destruction ensue when thousands of street hawkers, marching through central Johannesburg protesting aga14 Aug 2012–
E-0090553event Bloodshed, looting and destruction ensue when thousands of street hawkers, marching through central Johannesburg protesting aga14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090515event Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga and Afrikaans poet, is born in Mbombela township, Nelspruit. 14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091668event President Gamal Abdel Nasser (52), Egyptian leader, dies of a heart attack. Sadat replaces him in October.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091383event Controversial Springbok rugby fly half Butch James (22) receives a 6-week suspension because of his dangerous tackles.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0089955event A mass arrest of 2,000 Nyanga squatters is carried out, under immigration legislation allowing summary deportation.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091029event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012–
E-0091028event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091009event Khomotso Jacob Makwetla, accredited public relations practitioner and chair/director/member of several companies and corporatio14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090812event Charges are withdrawn unexpectedly against Johan Meyer, a Gauteng businessman arrested on 2 September on charges of allegedly b14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084063event Jan F.E. Cilliers (70), SA poet of “Die Vlakte” and other poems, dies in Harrismith, OFS.25 May 2012✓
E-0083940event Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria’s first civilian president in fifteen years, ending a string of disastrous military regimes.25 May 2012✓
E-0083871event Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta is elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya.25 May 2012✓
E-0082000event A devastating veld fire near Plettenberg Bay claims six lives and destroys 220 000 hectare of vegetation.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081934event Riaan Eksteen, head of SABC is relieved from his post following a political row with Pres. Botha.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081884event Jacobus Petrus de Wet, chief justice of Transvaal and acting judge in Ceylon, dies in England.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083269event Frederik Christiaan Ludolph Bosman, founder member of several Afrikaans cultural organisations, is born in Kuils River.14 May 2012✓

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