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E-0091588event Sidney Mendelssohn, collector of Africana and author of the South African Bibliography in 1910, dies in London.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091586event Young physicist of Switzerland, Einstein publishes his daring new theory, known as the special theory of relativity23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091533event Batandwa Ndondo (22), SRC University of Transkei, is shot by police on the outskirts of Cala, Transkei.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091517event Dr Johannes Frederik (Hans) Janse van Rensburg, commandant-general of the ‘Ossewabrandwag’ (OB) movement and administrator of t23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091464event Diederik Johannes Opperman, Afrikaans poet, dramatist, litterateur, and professor of the University of Stellenbosch, dies in St23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091411event Jan Lion Cachet, champion of Afrikaans and member of the firstand second Afrikaanse Taalbeweging (Afrikaans Language Movement),23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091329event The French take possession of Mauritius and rename it l’Ile de France (The Island of France).23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091321event South Africa signs memorandum of understanding with Iran on cooperation in the fields of mining and minerals.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091320event South Africa signs memorandum of understanding with Iran on cooperation in the fields of mining and minerals.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091236event António Agostinho Neto, first president of Angola, is born in the town of Icolo e Bengo in Angola.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091228event Joanna Everarda (Jo) Fourie, one of the most avid collectors of Afrikaans folk music (Boeremusiek), is born.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0089820event Soviet advisers are expelled from the Republic of Somali by orders of the president, Muhammad Siyad Barre.10 Aug 2012–
E-0089698event The leader of two independent ‘homelands’, Chief K. Matanzima and President Mangope of Bophuthatswana, support Mr. Botha’s call10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091204event Soviet advisers are expelled from the Republic of Somali by orders of the president, Muhammad Siyad Barre.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091203event Soviet advisers are expelled from the Republic of Somali by orders of the president, Muhammad Siyad Barre.23 Aug 2012–
E-0090847event Foreign ministers of Organisation of African Unity approve plan to end rebellion and political strife in Congo. 14 Aug 2012–
E-0090846event Foreign ministers of Organisation of African Unity approve plan to end rebellion and political strife in Congo. 14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090817event Prof. Gabriël Gideon Cillié, member of the head committee of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK), is14 Aug 2012✓
E-0082037event The White-led South African government commits itself to scrapping dozens of laws restricting movements of Blacks.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081905event Brigadier Riekert, minister of defence of Bophuthatswana, resigns with immediate effect. Some commentators argue that the resig13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081704event Bambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata, dead or alive.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083408event S. le Roux Marais (82), one of the pioneers of Afrikaans lieder (art songs), dies in Graaff-Reinet.18 May 2012✓
E-0083334event Striking security guards go on the rampage in Cape Town, causing millions of rands worth of damage.14 May 2012✓
E-0083237event Dr Rudolph Marloth (75), collector of plants and author of botany books, dies in Caledon, Western Cape.14 May 2012✓
E-0082849event British Togoland (a UN trust, once part of the German colony of Togo) votes for annexation by Ghana.7 May 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-0082261event French President émile François Loubet pays a state visit to Tunisia. A military review of thousands of native troops i23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082091event The White-led South African government commits itself to scrapping dozens of laws restricting movements of Blacks.23 Apr 2012–
E-0081469event The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weap5 Apr 2012✓

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