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E-0069275event South African Airways (SAA) announces that it will not fly to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) due to disturbances in the c7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069235event Egypt denies it has a secret nuclear weapons programme in an angry response to reports that the UN atomic watchdog agency is in7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069193event Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069190event Voters in South-West Africa/Namibia go to the polls to vote for a constituent assembly, which is to draw up a new constitution7 Nov 2011✓
E-0069108event A man arrested in connection with the shooting of a farmer, Niels Verburg, 52, and his son, Kim, 5, in a cave on 30 October, wa1 Nov 2011–
E-0069101event ANC leader Nelson Mandela arrives in Brunei on the last leg of a six-nation Asia-Pacific tour. Mandela has already received ple1 Nov 2011✓
E-0093114event P.W. Botha (90), former state president of South Africa who took the first steps to change some apartheid measures, dies at his28 Aug 2012–
E-0093112event About sixty people have been injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on the N1 south, near Murrayhill, north of Pret28 Aug 2012–
E-0093110event EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe28 Aug 2012–
E-0093106event Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d28 Aug 2012–
E-0093008event Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, dies in Stellenbosch. She was known for her promotion of the arts and as an28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092936event Andrew Barnard (45), colonial secretary of the Cape and husband of Lady Ann Barnard, dies on a farm near Cape Town after contra28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092913event Israeli President Yitzhak Navon becomes the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt. His welcome by Anwar al-Sadat is carrie28 Aug 2012✓
E-0087924event Mr Justice W.H. Heath finds Bonakele Jwabi and fifteen other men guilty of murder relating to the abduction and burning to deat6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087738event Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087576event The Africa Union (AU) summit opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and agrees to send 300 AU troops to protect ceasefire monitors in28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087563event A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African Natio28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087531event The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087513event As France announces that the Sahara will not be included in its plan for an independent Algeria, eighty people are killed and a28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087495event Granny Maloko Temo of Mantata near Dendron, eldest person in SA and allegedly eldest in the world, celebrates her 130th birthda28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087447event A restriction order is served on Harold Strachan of Durban in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. He has already been im28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087428event President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa’s constitution from 75 per cent to28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087369event Helen Joseph, who has been under a series of banning orders since she became the first South African to be placed under house a28 Jun 2012✓
R-0087128archive Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon in his Honour Hosted by President Dr Carlos Menem Buenos Aires, 23 July 199827 Jun 2012–
E-0089610event About 150 residents are killed (1215 August) during the forced expulsion of non-IFP from hostels and attacks on Phola Park squa31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089451event Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089430event Anglo-Boer War 2:  At Buffelshoek, a council of war adopts De Wet’s proposal to reduce the number of wagons to one per twenty-31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089377event Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089333event Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089234event Erasmus Smit, controversial preacher of the Voortrekkers, dies one day after his 85th birthday and one week after his wife, Sus27 Jul 2012✓

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