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E-0074339event Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, becomes the Leader of Government Business in the Gold Coast A17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074317event Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC "peace17 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-0074263event Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074251event At the end of the third meeting between Mozambique and South Africa, in Maputo, a joint statement is released announcing that t17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074234event Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074228event The Presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet in Cape Town. The five leaders exchange views on17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074210event The MPLA government in Angola is recognised by most countries of the world.   Foreign intervention is condemned, and the with17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074166event In a joint statement the leaders of seven Black ‘homelands’ set out the basis of a possible consensus solution for South Africa17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074152event Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074084event Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the Black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of intent’10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074067event Regulations are proclaimed for the layout of a third Voortrekker town, the first in Natal, named after Piet Retief and Gerrit M10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074050event Patricia de Lille, former member of the PAC and current leader of the Independent Democrats, is born in Beaufort West.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074042event Kurds occupy and take hostages at the Greek embassies in several European countries to protest Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ca10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074016event Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. Cuban intervention in the Angolan war started du10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079687event On this date all Africans become citizens of their ethnic ‘homelands’. However, they will not become foreigners in the Republic16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079685event Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079679event Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079669event About $11.39m (about R69m) is stolen in a carefully planned robbery from an SAA plane at Johannesburg International Airport.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079657event In an important policy shift, South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louis NeI, discloses that his government is se16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079639event The Rev. Wilhelm Adolph Alheit, army chaplain for the Boer forces and minister in Colesberg, Dordrecht and Ceres, is born.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079636event William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079616event Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079597event A new constitution with extended governmental power comes into operation in the Natal Colony when John Scott opens the first se16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079596event South African author Olive Schreiner is born at Wittebergen Mission Station near Herschel in the Eastern Cape. Her best-known w16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079578event The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079530event Verwoerd tells the South African Parliament that the riots (Sharpeville, Langa, etc) could in no way be described as a reaction16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079455event Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker met Mahatma Gandhi in Patna and held several hours of discussions with him (Mahatma Gandhi).16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079446event Lambertus and Abraham, eldest sons of Jan van Riebeeck, leave with skipper Douwe Aukes for their uncle, Abraham Quevellerius in16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079438event The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and16 Mar 2012✓

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