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E-0089324event The Minister of Defence says that South Africa has become self-sufficient in the manufacture of arms. The country is considerin31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089323event South Africa’s first atomic reactor, Safari I, is opened by the Prime Minister at Pelindaba near Pretoria. Nuclear power will b31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089322event Annesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089321event The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, to which SA is a party, is signed i31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089320event Nelson Mandela is arrested in Cedara, a small town just past Howick, Natal.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089319event The SA rugby team beats Australia 28-3 in the first test in Johannesburg. John Gainsford scores in the second half of the match31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089318event Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gains independence from France.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089317event Father Bernard Huss (72), Roman Catholic missionary, dies at Marian Hill, outside Durban.31 Jul 2012–
E-0089316event Werner Nel, SA baritone, is born.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089315event The South West African constitution is put into force.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089314event WWI: The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089313event Friedrich Engels, German political philosopher who wrote The Communist  Manifesto (well-known in SA) with Karl Marx, dies in L31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089312event Griqualand West is annexed to the Cape Colony, after it was proclaimed British territory on 27 October 1871.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089311event The Alabama, American raider, captures the Northern bark, Sea Bride, outside Table Bay.  The Alabama was built during the Amer31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089310event A peace treaty with Tripoli, which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis, brings an end to the Barbary Wars.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089309event The first 200 members of a West African peacekeeping force arrive in Liberia in an effort to stop more than two months of fight31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089308event Queen Mother Elizabeth celebrates her 100th birthday as thousands line the roads of London to cheer her. Her popularity stems i31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089307event About half of the filling stations in urban SA run dry because of a country wide strike of workers in the chemical industry.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089306event Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089305event Josia Thugwane is the first Black SA athlete to win an Olympic gold medal award by winning the marathon in Atlanta.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089304event During a march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) a suspected dr31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089303event Radio Maputo reports that according to South Africa’s Security Minister, Sidney Mufamadi, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Afric31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089302event Boy Chonco, working for Flora Mkhize, widow of Sipho Mkhize, is shot dead in Umbumbulu, Natal, while driving his car.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089301event The Greek liner Oceanos sinks off the South Africa coast in heavy seas; all 571 on board are rescued by 35 Squadron, in company31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089300event Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reluctantly offers to impose limited sanctions against South Africa.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089299event The African Republic of Upper Volta changes its named to Burkina Faso, which means ‘the land of upright men’.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089298event Captain Thomas Sankara seizes power in a military coup in Burkina Faso.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089297event Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089296event President Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50 000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089295event Malawian ambassador to South Africa, Joe Kachingwe, is the first Black African statesman to be formally recognised by the Apart31 Jul 2012✓

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