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E-0074300event Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079611event Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo.  He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 1916 Mar 2012✓
E-0079410event Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079367event Hundreds of police in Assiut, Egypt storm two buildings where bomb-throwing extremists are holed up. At least eleven people are16 Mar 2012✓
E-0091549event Jan Hendrik Boom, gardener at the Cape, and his wife Annetjie (Annetjie de Boerin), receive permission to farm and keep dairy c23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091276event William Ledwaba (16) is killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. 18 September, given as the date of23 Aug 2012✓
E-0081927event Benjamin Mzimkulu (Ben) Macala, SA artist, is born in Bloemfontein.   As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Orange13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081734event Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083689event The entire family of Morgan Montoedi, five members, are killed in a petrol bomb attack on their home in Kagiso, West Rand.18 May 2012✓
E-0083639event Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch18 May 2012✓
E-0083509event A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in18 May 2012✓
E-0083412event Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.18 May 2012✓
E-0083141event A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, at 7:00 pm. No one is injured.11 May 2012–
E-0082581event Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that3 May 2012✓
E-0082442event Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres30 Apr 2012–
E-0082368event Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081432event A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081025event The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop30 Mar 2012✓
E-0070820event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073659event Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072413event Jan Willem van der Rijst (’Oom Willem’), activist for Afrikaans and author of the first Spelling and Reading book for Afrikaans16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073414event Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073174event A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea27 Jan 2012✓
E-0071758event Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d6 Jan 2012✓
B-0125655biography Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld1905–
B-0008019biography Kevin Dowling1944–
B-0122926biography David Perumal––
B-0009259biography Helen Zille1951✓
B-0149653biography Stephen Joel Chifunyise1948-2019✓
B-0121532biography Diana Mary Mitchell1932-2016✓

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