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E-0090166event At least 633 people are killed in genocide in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089979event Simultaneous attacks by Algerian rebels against French targets in the Constantine district of Algeria have resulted in over 50010 Aug 2012✓
E-0089843event Dr Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (48), philologist and pioneer in Bushman (San) and Bantu research, dies in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090971event A second strike call (13-15 September) in Soweto leads to absenteeism estimated at 75-80 per cent in Johannesburg.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090948event Local media in Harare report another nine people have died of hunger in Bulawayo, despite President Robert Mugabe’s assertion t14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090796event It is officially disclosed that South African police are in Rhodesia actively helping in the fight against Nationalist guerrill14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084053event Captain Robert Gordon, who named the Orange River after the Prince of Orange in 1779, arrives in South Africa.25 May 2012✓
E-0083933event Local elections held in the Western Cape result in the National Party securing control of all three district councils.25 May 2012✓
E-0081886event Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers, trade union leader active in the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU), is born in Wepener, OFS.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081850event Stoffel Botha (68), Minister of Interior Affairs and Post and Telecommunication in the previous government, dies in Howick of h13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081771event Seretse Khama, rightful heir to the Ngwato chieftaincy in Bechuanaland (Botswana), is reunited with his British wife in England13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081752event The fifteen-year rule of President Hamani Diori in Niger comes to end when he is deposed in a coup.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083433event Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, war correspondent in the Anglo-Boer War 2 for the Morning Post, is born in London.18 May 2012✓
E-0083395event Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.18 May 2012✓
E-0083341event Four British tourists escape unharmed when the Moroccan hotel they are staying in is damaged in a terrorist bomb attack.14 May 2012✓
E-0083332event Malawi voters stream from impoverished villages to take part in the first multiparty election in three decades. Kamuzu Banda, o14 May 2012✓
E-0083212event Communist-backed Katangan gendarmes, who had been living in neighbouring Angola, have invaded the region around Kolwezi in sout11 May 2012✓
E-0083068event Sir John Frederick William Herschel, well-known British astronomer (in South Africa 1834-38), dies in Collingswood, Kent, Engla11 May 2012✓
E-0082859event Regional Services Councils are introduced giving Blacks increasing say in second-tier government. It is decided that Blacks in7 May 2012✓
E-0082649event In an attempt to defuse the escalating tension in Morocco, France allows Germany to use the port of Casablanca.3 May 2012✓
E-0082453event Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.30 Apr 2012–
E-0082379event Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082353event Hundreds of Coloured school children are arrested in Johannesburg in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act during a student-polic23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082299event Stampede mars democracy party. At least fifteen people are treated in Pretoria Academic Hospital after they were injured in a s23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082217event Ten commuters are killed in a bomb explosion at a taxi rank in Germiston. The ‘Blanke Bevrydings-beweging’  (BBB) accepts resp23 Apr 2012–
E-0082208event Ten commuters are killed in a bomb explosion at a taxi rank in Germiston. The ‘Blanke Bevrydings-beweging’  (BBB) accepts resp23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082123event It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082114event Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081035event Joel Phoshoko (28), member of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (CCAWUSA), dies in police custody in Pretoria.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079846event A Defence White Paper analyses South Africa’s defence requirements in the context of the Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angol19 Mar 2012✓

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