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E-0081709event Seven hundred political prisoners are released in Algeria on the orders of the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083671event The Rev. Willem Johannes Conradie, author of the first Afrikaans Bible retold for children, is born in Murraysburg, CC.18 May 2012✓
E-0083577event The Rev. Erasmus Smit ordains himself as minister of the “reizende gemeente der Gereformeerde Kerk naar Port Natal” (travelling18 May 2012✓
E-0083548event Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser threatens to close the Tiran Strait, on the Gulf of Aqaba, to Israeli shipping.18 May 2012✓
E-0083471event World Bank Vice President, Edward Jaycox, announces that the Bank has $1 billion worth of development projects in the pipeline18 May 2012✓
E-0083204event After a vote dominated by the Afrikaner Nationalist majority in the South African Parliament people of Colour (i.e. mixed race)11 May 2012✓
E-0083182event The mayor of Welkom in the Free State is tarred and feathered after officiating at a multi-racial wheelchair marathon.11 May 2012✓
E-0083180event The Smithsonian Institute, curator of the United States’ most important museum system, decides to sell all its holdings, worth11 May 2012✓
E-0083175event The Minister of Justice announces that the former Pan-Africanist Congress leader, Robert M. Sobukwe, has been released from det11 May 2012✓
E-0082907event The Canadian Government announces the extension of a General Preferential Tariff (GPT) to South Africa, making it easier for So7 May 2012–
E-0082816event Chief Leabua Jonathan, leader of the Basutoland National Party, which is to form the Protectorate’s first government, tells pol7 May 2012✓
E-0082757event Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille is elected with overwhelming majority as head of the country’s official opposition, the Democratic7 May 2012✓
E-0082672event United States President Bill Clinton announces the doubling of $600 million United States assistance to South Africa over the n3 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-0082587event Prof. François Ernst Johannes Malherbe, lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and literary critic, is born in the distric3 May 2012✓
E-0082555event The court finds Abram Fischer guilty on all fifteen counts of the indictment, including alleged sabotage, Communist Party membe3 May 2012–
E-0082554event The court finds Abram Fischer guilty on all fifteen counts of the indictment, including alleged sabotage, Communist Party membe3 May 2012✓
E-0082298event Pandemonium breaks loose when Sepp Blatter, the chairperson of Fifa, the soccer world governing body, and his entourage enters23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082130event Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980).23 Apr 2012–
E-0082129event Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980).23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081426event The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces that a pilot plant for the manufacture of enriched uranium has gone into production5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081423event Unlawful Organisations Act No 34 commences, providing for organisations threatening public order or the safety of the public to5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081171event Eighty-six South Africans survive a Japanese attack on the HMS Cornwall near the coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081062event The Refugees Act, 1998, comes into action. Mozambique and Zimbabwe are by far the largest source of illegal immigrants.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081050event The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) is dissolved due to fraud and corruptio30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081006event Catharina Felicia van Rees, musician who published the first collection of SA folk songs, dies in Gelderland, the Netherlands.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✓
R-0084636archive Trumpet Call to Youth, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 19441 Jun 2012–
E-0070159event The British under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeats Sekhukhune, Pedi paramount chief in the Battle of Sekhukhune Mountain and impriso25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069888event The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its collaboration with Portugal and Southern21 Nov 2011✓

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