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E-0088416event Isaac Baumann, SA pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, dies a week before his 68th birthday in Bloemfontein.13 Jul 2012✓
E-0085047event Pope John Paul II visits his native land, Poland, for the first time in fifty-nine years.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074387event Pieter Gijsbert van Noodt (also Noot or Van Nood) assumes his duties as governor at the Cape.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079430event The president of the Republic of Congo, Marien Ngouabi, is assassinated at his official residence in Brazzaville.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079399event Herbert Chitepo, 52, ZANU leader, is killed in Lusaka when his car blows up in an explosion.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076819event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts issues his first proclamation, offering amnesty to burghers, except for the leaders.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076218event South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and his counterparts from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regio5 Mar 2012✓
E-0090458event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Commandant Botha demotes Assistant Commandant-General Tobias Smuts because of his actions at Bremersdorp.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091586event Young physicist of Switzerland, Einstein publishes his daring new theory, known as the special theory of relativity23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091316event Political assassination: Joseph Twala (35), ANC official, is shot dead at his girlfriend’s home in Mbayi, Natal.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091315event Political assassination: Joseph Twala (35), ANC official, is shot dead at his girlfriend’s home in Mbayi, Natal.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091271event Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations (UN) Secretary General, dies when his plane crashes under mysterious circumstances near Ndola23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090094event Mohandas Gandhi is released from Poona jail after he nearly lost his life while on a hunger strike.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089927event President Nelson Mandela makes a major policy speech in Parliament to mark his first 100 days as president.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089784event South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091086event South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n14 Aug 2012–
E-0081631event Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081547event Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083089event Former Transkeian President Kaiser Matanzima is served with a banning order by his brother George, the Prime Minister.11 May 2012✓
E-0082822event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that his government accepts the recommendations of the Schlebusch Commission including the7 May 2012✓
E-0081459event Only three days after his arrival at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck starts building on the fort.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0079803event Dr Willem van der Ross (77), researcher known for his study of double stars, dies in Johannesburg.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079801event Prime Minister Vorster holds his first-ever international press conference and asserts that discussion of separate development19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070032event The new British Ambassador to South Africa, Sir John Nicholls, presents his credentials to the State President.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069996event General Joseph-Désiré Mobutu ousts President Kasavubu in his second military coup in the Congo (Now Zaire).21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070434event John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070410event Nhlalayenza Ngcobo, chairman of the Inkatha Youth Brigade, is shot dead during an attack on his home.5 Dec 2011✓
R-0105455archive Central Committee statement: We pledge to fulfil his last wish to carry on the struggle for freedom22 Feb 2016–
E-0073765event In a public repudiation of Mugabe’s designs on expanding his presidential powers and expropriating White-owned farms, Zimbabwea31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072897event Pres. Mugabe announces that he will not renounce his decision to expropriate the farms of 1 503 farmers.20 Jan 2012✓

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