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E-0091009event Khomotso Jacob Makwetla, accredited public relations practitioner and chair/director/member of several companies and corporatio14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090942event Lindi Memani, SA straw-weight champion, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Union.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090909event The ‘Chartered Company’ hoists the Union Jack at what is now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090880event Dr Gerrit Viljoen, first rector of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), is born in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090812event Charges are withdrawn unexpectedly against Johan Meyer, a Gauteng businessman arrested on 2 September on charges of allegedly b14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090735event Venda Reincorporation Forum Act No 5, providing for the re-incorporation of Venda into South Africa, commences.14 Aug 2012–
E-0084063event Jan F.E. Cilliers (70), SA poet of “Die Vlakte” and other poems, dies in Harrismith, OFS.25 May 2012✓
E-0083940event Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria’s first civilian president in fifteen years, ending a string of disastrous military regimes.25 May 2012✓
E-0083921event A "day of mourning" protest is planned by non-Whites against the Apartheid government’s latest racial legislation.25 May 2012✓
E-0083906event Ethiopians People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose se25 May 2012✓
E-0083871event Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta is elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya.25 May 2012✓
E-0083866event Lamar Crowson, later professor at the South African College of Music, is born in Florida, USA.25 May 2012✓
E-0083861event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal River and occupies the town of Vereeniging.25 May 2012✓
E-0083826event Seven ships are wrecked, with the loss of ten lives, at the Buffalo River, East London.25 May 2012✓
E-0082035event Dr Abraham J. van der Merwe (81), chairman of the Van Riebeeck fête committee in 1952, dies.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082000event A devastating veld fire near Plettenberg Bay claims six lives and destroys 220 000 hectare of vegetation.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081934event Riaan Eksteen, head of SABC is relieved from his post following a political row with Pres. Botha.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081924event Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo, pioneer minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and staunch Afrikaner patriot, dies.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081884event Jacobus Petrus de Wet, chief justice of Transvaal and acting judge in Ceylon, dies in England.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081833event Libya joins the United Arab Republic (Egypt, Iraq, and Syria) to form a Federation of Arab Republics.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081816event The South African National Government Cabinet receives a comprehensive briefing on the implementation of government policy on H13 Apr 2012–
E-0081800event The South African National Party wins a third successive general election, allowing further introductions of ‘Grand Apartheid’13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081765event Hannah Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083669event Ulrich Gerhard Lauts, founder of the pro-Boer association in the Netherlands, is born in Amsterdam.18 May 2012✓
E-0083536event Jacobus Pieter Verster, chief of the South African Air Force (1967-1975), is born in Boksburg.18 May 2012✓
E-0083454event United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.18 May 2012✓
E-0083410event The Prohibition of Political Interference Act, which bans racially mixed political parties, is to be repealed.18 May 2012✓
E-0083368event SA signs agreement with Namibia concerning the appointment of representatives and privileges and immunities for representatives14 May 2012–
E-0083343event Joachim A. van Plettenberg is sworn in as governor of the Cape after Ryk Tulbach passed away.14 May 2012–
E-0083269event Frederik Christiaan Ludolph Bosman, founder member of several Afrikaans cultural organisations, is born in Kuils River.14 May 2012✓

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