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E-0089835event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t10 Aug 2012–
E-0089729event Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089723event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089705event Hundreds of Burundians and a few foreigners pack the airport to catch the last commercial flights out of the country as the wor10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091185event Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,23 Aug 2012–
E-0091143event The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091012event Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to inquire into all aspects14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090955event Anglo-Boer War 2: The young Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands puts the Gelderland at the disposal of Pres. Paul Kruger to jou14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090906event The chairman of the Central Road Board of the Cape Colony, P.B. Borcherds, opens Bain’s Kloof Pass to traffic.  The pass was d14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090761event Bishop Desmond Tutu is consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the first Black head of South Africa’s Angli14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090751event Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090741event The biggest gathering of world leaders in history takes place at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York 150 heads of14 Aug 2012–
E-0084062event The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc25 May 2012✓
E-0083830event Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the25 May 2012✓
E-0082049event Tens of thousands of people, most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 023 Apr 2012✓
E-0081852event The first public worship of the Church of England, also called the Anglican Church, in South Africa, is conducted in Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081643event Dr Abraham Johannes van der Merwe, SA church leader and leader of the Afrikaner community, is born in the district of Calvinia,5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081626event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012–
E-0081575event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of5 Apr 2012–
E-0081542event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083631event A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto18 May 2012✓
E-0083491event Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania.  He died on 6 Jan. 1995.18 May 2012✓
E-0083483event Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,18 May 2012✓
E-0083322event In a major move in the process of privatisation in South Africa, the Conversion of Iscor Bill is passed, enabling Iscor to be c14 May 2012✓
E-0083315event Nelson Ramodike is re-elected as chief minister of Lebowa. He announces that he will personally handle the portfolio of law and14 May 2012✓
E-0083291event President Ahmed Ben Bella, of the republic of Algeria, returns home after a 25-day diplomatic tour to the Soviet Union and East14 May 2012✓
E-0083240event Hours after declaring its independence and the end of Britain’s 28-year-old Palestine mandate, the new state of Israel is attac14 May 2012✓
E-0083091event A report by the US Department of Mines claims that a ban on imports of South African minerals will cost the US the equivalent o11 May 2012✓
E-0082785event Twenty-three of the twenty-six parties involved in the Multi-Party Talks at the World Trade Centre, adopt a Declaration of Inte7 May 2012✓
E-0082751event Announcing the final results of the election, the Chairman of the IEC, Judge Johann Kriegler says that the April 26-29 election7 May 2012✓

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