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E-0090191event Confrontation between South Africa and Transkei over the deportation and return to Transkei of squatters from the Cape Town are10 Aug 2012–
E-0090110event Arab guerrillas hijack an Egyptair plane shortly after takeoff from Cairo. The plane lands at Luxor where Egyptian commandos su10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090104event The SA minister of posts and telegraphs complains that Radio Tanzania’s broadcasts from Dar-es-Salaam are interfering with broa10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090065event Dr. Eschel Rhoodie is extradited from France and handed over to the South African authorities. He appears briefly in Pretoria’s10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091001event Archibald Lamont, minister of religion, politician and mayor of Durban from 1929-1932, is born in Port Babbabtyne, Bute Island,14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090845event Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he has been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090843event Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he has been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084044event The Rwanda Genocide. At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.25 May 2012✓
E-0083897event A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during25 May 2012✓
R-0083723archive Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Youth Council, 16 March 194522 May 2012–
E-0081876event The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank meet in Washington, DC with finance ministers and central bankers from13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081807event A police officer, WPC Yvonne Fletcher, is killed and ten people injured after shots were fired from the Libyan People’s Bureau13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081792event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British delegation proposes that thirty representatives from each of the two Boer republics meet in a ‘na13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081664event Government officials seal off entrances to the farm Goedgevonden where people who were removed from the land thirteen years ago5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083667event Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet18 May 2012✓
E-0083534event Bambata Rebellion: A message is received from Sigananda informing Col McKenzie that he wishes to surrender in Nkandla, as he wa18 May 2012✓
E-0083502event The Fort Klapperkop military museum, Pretoria, mainly illustrating the period from the Great Trek to 1902, is opened by Preside18 May 2012✓
E-0083396event Sir Christopher Joseph Quinton Brand, aviation pioneer who completed the first flight from London to Cape Town with Sir Pierre18 May 2012✓
E-0083313event Mrs Helen Suzman, PFP MP, announces her retirement from Parliament after having served as MP for Houghton, Johannesburg, for th14 May 2012✓
E-0083078event Plans for independence of the Gold Coast (becomes Ghana in March 1957) from Britain are approved by the Colonial Secretary.11 May 2012✓
E-0082870event Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The actress, who played the character of  Doob7 May 2012✓
E-0082763event Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow7 May 2012✓
E-0082221event Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem23 Apr 2012–
E-0082212event Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081213event Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0070034event Forty-five mercenaries from South Africa under Colonel Mike Hoare land in Seychelles, attack the airport and cause heavy damage21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069993event The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069942event Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069917event World War 1: North Africa: German L59 Zeppelin starts flight from Bulgaria to Khartoum carrying much needed supplies to General21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069865event From this date the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) becomes a full portfolio of National Security under the Prime Minister who i21 Nov 2011✓

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