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E-0090975event B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090933event South African riot police use tear gas and whips in Soweto as unrest continue. A sweeping ban on meetings critical of the Gover14 Aug 2012–
E-0090923event Minister of Defence P.W. Botha announces in Cape Town that the posts of Secretary for Defence and Commandant-General of the Def14 Aug 2012–
E-0090700event At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,14 Aug 2012✓
E-0092817event At least twenty-five people are reported to have died in violence between members of the United Democratic Party and Inkatha in28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084041event Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc25 May 2012✓
E-0084038event A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy25 May 2012✓
E-0083998event Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa25 May 2012✓
E-0083963event Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co25 May 2012✓
E-0083932event France is accused by the Human Rights Arms Project of arming and training the Hutu extremists who organised the genocide in Rwa25 May 2012✓
E-0083872event Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg.   He was born deaf and atten25 May 2012✓
E-0083867event Prof. Johan Heyns, well-known professor of theology at the University of Pretoria and moderator of the General Synod of the DRC25 May 2012✓
E-0081971event The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, and Panmure, are mer23 Apr 2012–
E-0081933event Ten railway coaches are set on fire in Soweto and another twenty-six are damaged. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 21 A13 Apr 2012–
E-0081906event Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four other women arrive in Harare for three days13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081794event General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally has the Germans on the ru13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081736event The tobacco industry in Hekpoort and Magaliesburg is in full swing again.   The crop since the war (Anglo-Boer War 2) has bee13 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-0081603event Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, a chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele born c. 1840, dies and is buried at Wallmannstal, north of5 Apr 2012–
E-0081553event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012–
E-0083685event The United States Vice President, Walter Mondale and the Prime Minister, John Vorster, meet in Vienna for two days of high-leve18 May 2012✓
E-0083668event Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen18 May 2012✓
E-0083666event Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,18 May 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-0083619event The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R8718 May 2012✓
E-0083538event Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.18 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-0083434event Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric18 May 2012✓
E-0083390event Dick King, a 29-year-old wagon driver, and his 16-year-old servant, Ndongeni, leave Durban on horseback for Grahamstown on an e18 May 2012✓

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