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E-0082288event Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia after thirty years of civil war following a United Nations (UN)-monitored referendum.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082287event A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082286event The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White state (volkstaat), but ex23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082285event Winnie Madikizela-Mandela fails to win the presidency of the ANC’s Women’s League.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082284event Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082283event Eleven days after the killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the siege of the Libyan embassy ends and thirty Libyans (d23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082282event Pieter Claassens (34), SA poet, dies.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082281event The Rand daily Mail reports that ninety-six White soldiers walked out of a camp in April in protest against alleged poor food a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082280event Internal Security Act No 32, empowering Government to declare an organisation unlawful and to control the distribution of publi23 Apr 2012–
E-0082279event Police confront some 10,000 students demonstrating against rent increases in Soweto and violence ensues.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082278event South Africa’s diplomatic representation in Taiwan has been raised from Consulate-General to full ambassadorial level.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082277event First president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082276event Charles Berman, mine medical officer and expert on primary liver cancer, dies in Johannesburg.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082275event Egypt recalls its diplomats from Tunisia.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082274event Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082273event The French-governed part of Togo land becomes the independent Republic of Togo, Africa’s smallest independent country.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082272event Spanish Southern Protectorate (part of Spanish Sahara), one of four ‘international administrative zones’ imposed on Morocco in23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082271event Egypt announces plans to sell cotton to Communist China.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082270event The SA government passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating races.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082269event Imperial Airways establishes a full-fledged aerial service between Cape Town and London.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082268event Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the previous government, is born in Rustenburg, Transvaal.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082267event Cecile Buurman, SA actress and elocutionist, is born.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082266event Leo Quayle, SA music conductor, is born.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082265event Louis Botha and James Barry Munnik Herzog form the nationalist United South African (or Unionist) Party, calling for South Afri23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082264event Jac J. Brits, Afrikaans author of mainly juvenile fiction and chairman of the ‘Afrikaanse Skrywerskring’, is born in the distri23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082263event Arthur Edward Herbert Bleksley, mathematician and astronomer, is born in Matatiele, East Griqualand.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082262event William Ayliff (79), farmer and Cape politician, dies in Grahamstown.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082261event French President émile François Loubet pays a state visit to Tunisia. A military review of thousands of native troops i23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082260event Dr Hendrik Johannes van Eck, chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation, is born in Kimberley.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082259event Chris August Blignaut, popular singer of light Afrikaans songs, is born.23 Apr 2012✓

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