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E-0071243event Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and founder member of the Johannesburg Municipal Sports Club, dies in Johannesburg14 Dec 2011✓
E-0074004event Daniël Petrus Goosen, secretary for the Academy of Science and Art, is born in Schweizer-Reneke, western Transvaal.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073999event Jan Daniël Cilliers, poet under the pseudonym “Kleinjan”, is born on a farm in the vicinity of Wellington, CC.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073797event Ex-President F.W. De Klerk announces that his marriage of 39 years to Marike is on the rocks.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073748event General Murtula Ramat Muhammed, Nigerian head of state since a bloodless coup in 1975, is assassinated during a failed military31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073711event Dr Albertus Daniel Keet  (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073672event A delegation from Mauritius arrives in Cape Town to discuss ways of strengthening links between Mauritius and South Africa.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073637event The Republican US President Ronald Reagan accepts that the policy of constructive engagement has failed. He announces a change31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073563event In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073521event Gen. Bantu Holomisa announces the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, South African Communist Party, South African Students’ Organisatio31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072909event Hundreds of Zulu men protesting against paying the Natal Poll Tax, threaten to kill their magistrate Mr. R E Dunn20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072899event Approximately ten thousand residents of Pretoria attend the Tshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations on Church Square. Afro20 Jan 2012–
E-0072887event Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and member of parliament, dies at Fairfield, Caledon district, Western Cape.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072878event Kwame Nkrumah, who became first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is imprisoned and becomes a national hero.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072731event Heated discussion occurs at a cabinet meeting and President Mandela casts doubt on the commitment of second Deputy President F.16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071882event Leaders of South Africa’s major sports federations agree to work towards a blanket moratorium on all contact with international6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071870event After thirty months of fighting, Biafra capitulates to Nigeria. Biafra leader General Odumegwu Ojukwu flees with his family.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071850event Birth of the Rosenkowitz sextuplet in Cape Town, the first in the world where all six babies survive.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073436event State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, centred on privatisation, deregu31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073429event The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073402event Six men suffocate in Vereeniging after being locked up by robbers in the airtight compartment of a meat truck.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073365event James Chapman (90) dies in Kimberley. He was the first explorer who took photographs of places he visited.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073358event Operation PROTECTO (3 February 1994 – December 1994) of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to restore peace on31 Jan 2012–
E-0073298event Local Government Transition Act No 209, providing for revised interim measures to promote the restructuring of local government31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073260event Judge Jacob de Villiers, judge of the Appeal Court in South Africa, dies in Somerset West, Western Cape.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073249event Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students’ Organisation, is killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073201event In his opening speech to Parliament, President Botha outlines government policy on the restoration of South African citizenship31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073177event World Leprosy Day: Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental organisations gather in South Africa from 30 Janua27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073171event Patrick McCall, member of Stander’s bank robber gang, is killed by police in Stander’s hideout in Houghton, Johannesburg.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073135event Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup27 Jan 2012✓

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