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E-0083532event Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace talks United Kingdom. Chamberlain queries the clause concerning native political rights, but Milner rep18 May 2012–
E-0083526event Dr Daniël Francois Malan, premier of SA at the age of 74, is born in Riebeeck West, CC.18 May 2012✓
E-0083525event Arthur Conan Doyle, medic during Anglo-Boer War 2 and subsequent author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, is born.18 May 2012✓
E-0083446event The Bulhoek massacre, during which police fire on charging ‘Israelites’, a religious sect who refuse to leave a squatters’ sett18 May 2012✓
E-0083402event Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho18 May 2012✓
E-0083373event Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.14 May 2012–
E-0083339event The Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh is held by British forces as involvement in civil war increases.14 May 2012✓
E-0083316event Minister of National Health and Population Development Rina Venter announces the abolishment of racial segregation in state hos14 May 2012✓
E-0083250event Jacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title. Jacob Matlala [online] Available at14 May 2012–
E-0083243event President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt refuses to resume talks with Israel over the question of Palestinian autonomy. 14 May 2012✓
E-0083185event The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA11 May 2012–
E-0083172event With Patrice Lumumba (Congolese nationalist) still under arrest, fighting has broken out between rival Congolese tribes in the11 May 2012✓
E-0083170event French nationalists in Algeria rebel: 40,000 French settlers have demonstrated against a proposal by Pierre Pfimlin, the French11 May 2012✓
E-0083148event Agreement is reached in Working Group III of CODESA on the establishment of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council, which11 May 2012–
E-0083083event In a by-election in Westdene, Johannesburg, ‘Pik’ Botha as National Party candidate defeats the Herstigte Nasionale Party by 9,11 May 2012✓
E-0083079event The National Professional Football League (N.F.L.) is founded by eleven clubs from Johannesburg and Pretoria, with Snoyman as c11 May 2012✓
E-0083064event Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.11 May 2012✓
E-0082898event Jabulani Maluleke, secretary of the COSAS Soweto branch, disappears after allegedly being arrested by railway police while retu7 May 2012✓
E-0082880event Eric Sturgess, SA tennis player who won a title in the mixed doubles on Wimbledon, is born in Johannesburg.7 May 2012✓
E-0082869event An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.7 May 2012✓
E-0082820event John Vorster declares that he has personally authorised the Department of Information to use secret funds without Parliamentary7 May 2012✓
E-0082810event WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet launches Op7 May 2012✓
E-0082779event The Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, announces in Parliament that Local Authorities must is7 May 2012✓
E-0082754event Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko leaves the rebel-threatened capital and flees to Gabon to meet African leaders.7 May 2012✓
E-0082631event The Minister for Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that relevant urban Black leaders will be consulted3 May 2012✓
E-0082550event Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for incitement of Africans3 May 2012✓
E-0082489event João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082460event The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u30 Apr 2012–
E-0082459event The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u30 Apr 2012–
E-0082385event The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u23 Apr 2012✓

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