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E-0088610event Cyrus Vance, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visits South Africa (21-31 July), for talks with a broad array of20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088584event Anglo-Boer War 2: British General Lord Robert’s advance along the eastern line begins, starting from his outposts east of Preto20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088450event Anglo-Boer War 2: At Paardekop, in the Gatsrand, near Vereeniging, General J.C. Smuts and a small party are surprised in their13 Jul 2012✓
E-0074454event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer general Piet Cronje surrenders with 3 919 men (nearly 10% of the total republican fighting strength)17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074282event The first general elections to the Ciskei’s Legislative Assembly are held in the territory’s nine districts. There are no polit17 Feb 2012✓
E-0076869event The Head of the Security Police, General Venter, reports that nobody is still being held incommunicado under the Terrorism Act,12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076256event Chief of the SA Air Force (SAAF) Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagiano announces Waterkloof air force base the country’s most promin5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076251event Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies5 Mar 2012✓
E-0092766event Following his victory at the general elections in which his party, the Transkei National Independent Party (TNIP) won twenty-ei28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092451event A Second General Law Amendment Bill is introduced by the minister of justice, J.T. Kruger, involving the repeal of the ‘Masters27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092334event The Secretary-General of the Supreme African Sports Council, J.-G. Ganga, says he will admit White South Africans to the Africa27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092297event At a special meeting of the General Assembly, the United Nations gave awards to the following seven persons in recognition of t27 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-0090468event World War 2: The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Bat14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091633event The United Nations General Assembly votes by 114 votes to two (South Africa and Portugal), with three abstentions (Britain, Fra23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091460event It is reported that the President, Vice-President and Secretary-General of the Hervormde Kerk (Reformed Church) of the Netherla23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091294event J.G.N. Strauss is elected leader of the United Party in succession to General Jan Smuts, who died a few days earlier.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0089971event Anglo-Boer War: Colonel Ingouville-Williams’ column transports General De la Rey’s 84 year old mother to the Klerksdorp concent10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091144event Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter23 Aug 2012✓
E-0083900event WWII: North Africa. Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt: Operation ‘Ven25 May 2012✓
E-0083832event General elections in South Africa. The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) comes to power in coalition with th25 May 2012✓
E-0082051event UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says conditions are appalling for the estimated 100 000 Rwandan refugees that are being denied23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081777event The government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Anglican General Secretary of the South African Council of Churc13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081671event Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083474event Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit18 May 2012✓
E-0083248event The second plenary session of CODESA (CODESA II) is convened in Johannesburg. The UN delegation sent by the Secretary-General t14 May 2012✓
E-0083074event WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Gustav von Vaerst’s 5th Panzer Army finally surrenders on the Cape Bon peninsula11 May 2012✓
E-0082773event WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema7 May 2012✓
E-0082628event General Law Amendment Act No 37 commences. Section 17, the ninety-day detention law, authorises any commissioned officer to det3 May 2012✓
E-0082375event Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.23 Apr 2012✓

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