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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✓
E-0079437event Robert Mugabe wins another six-year term as president of Zimbabwe after crushing his two opponents in the country’s presidentia16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079380event Dr James Barry (allegedly a lady, Miranda Stuart) is appointed by Lord Charles Somerset as medical inspector of the Colony in t16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079361event The ‘Sharpeville Six’ win a one-day stay of execution in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The stay is granted a day before16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076886event Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076876event In elections to the 100-member Lebowa National Assembly, Dr. Phatudi’s ruling Lebowa People’s Party wins more than three-quarte12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076865event Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 commences: Prohibits gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considers th12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076848event The national department of transport launches the seven month Be Legal  campaign at the Jack Mincer Taxi Rank in Johannesburg,12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076843event Business Day reports that in the wake of a decision by the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Pretoria n12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076813event Diocesan College School (also known as Bishop’s) is founded by Bishop Robert Gray in Rondebosch, Cape Town, with six learners.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076791event In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076784event The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) asks the national Olympic committees of Belgium, Great Britain, Japan, the Neth12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076744event De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076728event The Nederduitse Gereformerde Kerk (NGK) together with its sister church for Blacks (the NGK in Afrika), Coloureds (the NG Sendi12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076714event Gen. Piet Joubert, commander-in-chief of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, lays the cornerstone of the Dutch Reformed Mother Chu12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076274event All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit5 Mar 2012–
E-0076244event The Weekly Mail reports that, since the beginning of February 1990, thirty people have died in Bophuthatswana. Violence and sch5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076240event Proclamation R29 is gazetted, enabling Africans in towns on trust land to obtain full property rights, affecting and estimated5 Mar 2012✓

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