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E-0082057event Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082036event The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081918event Birth of Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck in Culemborg, the Netherlands. Van Riebeeck landed at the southern tip of Africa on 6 Ap13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081901event In a major statement, the prime minister declares that in future, South Africa will be guided solely by its own interests, and13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081773event The last general election of the Union of South Africa is held.   The National Party under J.G. Strydom wins 103 seats.13 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-0081703event S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081651event A special committee of the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081633event Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for5 Apr 2012–
E-0081549event Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083692event Kamuzu Banda of Malawi, Africa’s longest ruling dictator with thirty years at the helm, concedes defeat to Bakili Muluzi in the18 May 2012✓
E-0083684event John Vorster visits Malawi (19-21 May) and stresses the desire for continued contact and co-operation between South Africa and18 May 2012✓
E-0083627event In East Africa’s worst marine disaster, a Tanzanian ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the est18 May 2012✓
E-0083581event Louis Botha is to be the Union of South Africa’s first prime minister.  Herbert Gladstone, governor-general, asks him to const18 May 2012✓
E-0083469event A three-day Seminar on the Future Role of the United Nations in Helping Address South Africa’s Socio-economic Problems is held18 May 2012✓
E-0083422event The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o18 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-0083354event WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi after eighteen day14 May 2012–
E-0083305event South Africa concedes that almost two million Black people have been relocated since 1960, but maintains that only 456,860 were14 May 2012✓
E-0083286event WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack14 May 2012✓
E-0083256event Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.14 May 2012✓
E-0083045event WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi after eighteen day11 May 2012✓
E-0082908event The Australian Government announces that it would give an extra 8 million Australian Dollars in aid to South Africa over the ne7 May 2012–
E-0082748event A White Paper of the Departments of Justice and of Correctional Services says South Africa has one of the highest prison popula7 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 2012✓
E-0082625event ’Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa) is unanimously accepted as only official anthem in Parliament. The Englis3 May 2012✓
E-0082499event Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082320event Business Day reports that Dr Simon Brand, chief executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, has warned that the expen23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082236event WWII: East Africa: The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, is captured by Gener23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082222event Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, arriving in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of P23 Apr 2012–

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