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E-0079442event Mukesh Kapila, UN top official in Sudan, issues the strongest international warning yet about the conflict in the country’s wes16 Mar 2012–
E-0076852event The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076785event The largest concentration of national monuments in the country, the thirty-two restored buildings which had been damaged in the12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076776event Samuel Maharero, who succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076738event Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076734event ANC president Oliver Tambo and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076286event Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund5 Mar 2012–
E-0076249event Mafikeng shuts down, and sporadic protests in the town and in neighbouring Mmabatho are halted by police and military troops.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074771event The Harms Commission, appointed in December 1989 by the F.W. de Klerk government to investigate into state involvement in polit24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074693event The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074581event Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076175event Bertie van Zyl (72), biggest tomato farmer in the world and owner of tomato farm ZZ2, dies in a Pretoria hospital.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0092609event Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092553event A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092517event The Rev. Pierre Simond delivers the first sermon in French in the Cape when he addresses Huguenot refugees at Stellenbosch.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092508event Ten people die in Khayelitsha when gunmen open fire on taxi association members in a revival of Western Cape taxi hostilities.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092456event Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092455event Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092407event German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, suspected of complicity in the 2027 Aug 2012✓
E-0092378event South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies responsibili27 Aug 2012–
E-0092377event South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies responsibili27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092152event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development states that, in 1973, 475,387 foreign Africans were working in South Afric27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091977event Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronjé, politician and military leader in the ZAR and general during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091918event Muziwendoda Mdluli of the National Intelligence Agency is found shot dead in his car in Silverton, Pretoria. He was investigati27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091784event The Citizen reports there were two bomb blasts in Umtata, Transkei, in September. The first was when police detonated a limpet23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091775event Azapo (Azanian People’s Organisation) is established in Roodepoort for the second time, after the first founding in 1977 did no23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090671event The second rugby test in Kimberley between South Africa and the British Isles ends in a tie, like the first one.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090314event The gold price falls to its lowest level in eighteen years when it is fixed on $278,50 in London.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090239event An explosion takes place at the Ciskei consulate offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in which one person is injured. I10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091700event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The position of Commander-In-Chief at the War Office in London is offered to Lord Roberts.23 Aug 2012✓

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