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E-0091458event Idi Amin gives Uganda’s 8,000 Asians forty-eight hours to leave the country.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0082652event Constitutional commission recommends 5,000-year-old monarchy be ended and Egypt become a republic.3 May 2012✓
E-0070248event The Congress of South African Trade Unions is formed with a membership of 500 000.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0011437event About 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion16 Mar 2011✓
E-0069143event The "Mad Mullah" and 17,000 troops are advancing on the British at Bohodle, Somaliland.7 Nov 2011✓
E-0084797event Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele breaks the 10 000m world record in 26 minutes 20.32 seconds.1 Jun 2012✓
R-0098905archive 5 000 cartoons later and Zapiro’s still tilting at windmills by Jonathan Ancer, 06 february 20159 Feb 2015–
E-0083593event The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) has ordered the mobilisation of 100,000 reservists.18 May 2012✓
E-0083371event Military observers returning to the Rwandan countryside report ethnic killings of at least 200 000.14 May 2012–
E-0083062event Military observers returning to the Rwandan countryside report ethnic killings of at least 200 000.11 May 2012✓
E-0082279event Police confront some 10,000 students demonstrating against rent increases in Soweto and violence ensues.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0070870event SA Department of Justice announces that more than 1 000 ANC members have applied for amnesty.9 Dec 2011✓
R-0110044archive Central Park, some people, 3.00 p.m. (a poem)22 Feb 2016–
E-0083382event Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV 17 May 2012–
E-0083603event French and Belgian paratroopers who were flown into Kolwezi, Zaire’s main copper producing town, to rescue the 3,000 White resi18 May 2012✓
E-0089630event The South African Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu2 Aug 2012✓
E-0088688event Mozambican rebels rampage through villages, killing about 1 000 people and beheading them, according to media reports.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0084949event Severe drought is reported in Ethiopia, over 800,000 people are in urgent need of supplies.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074321event Fleeing fighting, 30 000 refugees from Rwanda and Burundi leave their refugee camp in eastern Zaire.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0089955event A mass arrest of 2,000 Nyanga squatters is carried out, under immigration legislation allowing summary deportation.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0082000event A devastating veld fire near Plettenberg Bay claims six lives and destroys 220 000 hectare of vegetation.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081885event Bambatha Rebellion:Over 7,000 British troops are called out to quell Zulu aggression in Natal.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0070214event Red Cross says clan battles in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu have killed more than 1 000 people.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071602event WW2: Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault 25 000 Italian troops, including six generals, are captured.14 Dec 2011✓
A-0064886article Elections in post Apartheid South Africa4 May 2011–
E-0089613event US marines open fire on 3,000 Somali demonstrators protesting against the US presence in the country.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0088767event The Queen opens the Commonwealth Games in Manchester with a spectacular ceremony in front of 38,000 people.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0074292event Four people are shot dead in Nkowankowa after a mass meeting of 30 000 people in a local stadium.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079448event Diamonds to the worth of about £50,000 are stolen from the post office in Cape Town.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0090347event South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to "the people of Moscow".10 Aug 2012✓

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