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E-0089826event South Africa’s largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), held its annual congress from 1210 Aug 2012–
E-0089687event The Central African Republic (former Oubangi-Shari) gains independence from France with David Dacko, the cousin of the former P10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090920event The Central African Republics, Ghana and Guinea threaten to withdraw their troops from a security force unless the United Natio14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083994event is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Rive25 May 2012✓
E-0083973event US Marines evacuate 900 civilians from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, wracked by looting and violence after a military25 May 2012✓
R-0083731archive Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives’ Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, 11 November 194222 May 2012–
E-0081837event Rebels opposed to the Marxist Government of Mozambique claim responsibility today for cutting power lines from the Cabora Bassa13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081760event Ministers from 109 countries sign a 26,000-page world trade agreement known as the Uruguay Round accords in Morocco.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081721event Chris Ntuli, former detainee, is stabbed after returning from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restric13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081707event The German Fifth Panzer Army under General Gustav von Vaerst begins to evacuate from Tunis. Rommel departed on 9 March.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081578event Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are5 Apr 2012–
E-0083569event Athletics South Africa announces that South Africa’s former Olympic 800m silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng is banned from all co18 May 2012✓
E-0083556event White-ruled African nation of Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, is expelled from Olympics because of its racial policies.18 May 2012✓
E-0083418event 15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.18 May 2012✓
E-0083332event Malawi voters stream from impoverished villages to take part in the first multiparty election in three decades. Kamuzu Banda, o14 May 2012✓
E-0083275event Anglo-Boer War 2: A ‘flying’ column that has sped its way straight from Kimberley (reinforced further by Canadian troops) comes14 May 2012✓
E-0083186event An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.11 May 2012✓
E-0083175event The Minister of Justice announces that the former Pan-Africanist Congress leader, Robert M. Sobukwe, has been released from det11 May 2012✓
E-0083136event Pik Botha sees his election victory as a mandate to bring about internal change and to move away from discrimination.11 May 2012✓
E-0082903event Helene Pastoors, the Belgian national sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1986 for treason, is released from prison followi7 May 2012✓
E-0082873event Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban issues a proclamation extending the boundary of the Cape Colony eastwards from the Keiskamma to t7 May 2012✓
E-0082658event Dr Eschel Rhoodie, SA secretary of Information, in a sensational statement reveals that payments made by him from a secret fund3 May 2012✓
E-0082154event Six people die after they were thrown from a passenger train in Benoni, apparently by striking security guards. "There is23 Apr 2012–
E-0082153event Six people die after they were thrown from a passenger train in Benoni, apparently by striking security guards. "There is23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082127event Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i23 Apr 2012–
E-0082126event Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082123event It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081502event Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081453event An evacuation of foreigners from Liberia is undertaken with US helicopters after thousands flock to the US diplomatic compound5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081088event WW2: Allied air raid on Tunis causes considerable damage just before Axis troops start their final withdrawal from Tunisia.30 Mar 2012✓

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