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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-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-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-0086452event The United Nations (UN) Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. In October 1950 South Africa sent its22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086432event The rugby match between SA and France ends in a tie with 20 each.  It is François Pienaar’s first match as Springbok captain.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086234event Violence continued in Kwazulu-Natal. Thirty-seven murdered are reported on 22-23 June and fourteen on 24 June. The victims incl15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086202event Muhammad Ahmad ibn al Sayyid Abd Allah, who declared himself as the Mahdi, religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1881, di15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085983event Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he15 Jun 2012–
E-0088840event Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085865event Three people die and sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo’s Bar on the Durban beach.   ANC member Robert McBri8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085831event Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085785event The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BAAM) holds an 11-hour rock concert at Wembley Stadium in London to pay tribute to Nelson8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085681event Voters in South-West Africa/Namibia go to the polls to vote for a constituent assembly, which is to draw up a new constitution8 Jun 2012–
E-0088365event British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock is held at gunpoint by security forces in Zimbabwe when his plane lands at the ‘wrong’13 Jul 2012✓
E-0084935event Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he1 Jun 2012–
E-0084856event Sewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh, champion for the poor and social worker, dies in Durban. He was born in 1890 and played an active r1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084835event A human leg falls from a South African Airways plane on to a suburban New York home as the aircraft prepares to land at John F1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074407event More than 100,000 persons attend a rally in Durban addressed by Nelson Mandela, who urges his followers to end the factional wa17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074383event Nine army officers in Zaire declare that they will join the rebels under Laurent Kabila who seek to topple Mobuto Sese Seko.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074019event Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079359event It is reported that during February 1979, Dr. Eschel Rhoodie has claimed in interviews in Quito, Ecador, that he was the initia16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076853event Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for "blasphemous libels on Cape ladies" and is sentenced to beg thei12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076225event Lt Tommy Rose covers the distance between South Africa and England in six days, six hours and fifty-seven minutes in a record f5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074704event At least fourteen children have contracted HIV in SA hospitals and researchers say it should be a ‘wake-up’ call for the under-24 Feb 2012–
E-0092670event The formerly Whites-only National Party opens its membership to all race groups. Date is given as 19 October in another source.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092487event Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens27 Aug 2012–
E-0092425event The Mail & Guardian goes to court to challenge an urgent interdict forcing it to remove from its website an SABC report int27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092319event Commander Simon van der Stel, accompanied by his six children and his wife’s sister, is welcomed at the Cape by Hendrik Crudop,27 Aug 2012–
E-0092174event The Khoi and San National Language Body is officially launched in Upington, Northern Cape. Its aim is to promote and develop th27 Aug 2012–
E-0092173event The Khoi and San National Language Body is officially launched in Upington, Northern Cape. Its aim is to promote and develop th27 Aug 2012✓

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