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E-0074236event Prof. Adriaan Francken, professor in Dutch and French at Grey University College in Bloemfontein and founding member of the Onz17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074225event Gunmen kill eighteen young ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal, the first major act of violence in a Zulu anti-election campaign.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074215event President Lennox Sebe of the Ciskei escapes an assassination attempt by elements in the Transkei Defence Force in an attempted17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074194event Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (58), British philanthropist who had a strong influence on the British policy in South Africa, dies in17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074062event Following violent student protests in Cape Town on 16 February, President Mandela warns in Parliament that he will not tolerate10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079556event Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) The 3-months siege of British soldiers in the Old Fort in Potchefstroom ends a16 Mar 2012✓
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✓

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