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E-0082640event In response to Pretoria’s failure to meet the 30 April deadline, 364 political prisoners throughout South Africa start an indef3 May 2012✓
E-0082636event Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe3 May 2012✓
E-0082630event PAC Central Committee announces in Dar es Salaam that its chairman, Potlako Leballo, is to retire due to health reasons.3 May 2012✓
E-0082508event Prime Minister Vorster announces that Robert Sobukwe has been taken to Robben Island, where he will be detained indefinitely in30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082498event William C. Oswell, White scout who saw the Victorian Falls for the first time with Livingstone, dies in Turnbridge Wells, Engla30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082470event 500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag30 Apr 2012–
E-0082392event 500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082335event The first  Thirstland Trek, exodus of Boer families through Northern Bechuanaland to Angola that started in 1874 under the lea23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082321event South Africa, Cuba, Angola and the United States announce they are to attend a settlement conference on Angola and Namibia in B23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082304event Willem Frederick Gerard Nicolai (66), Dutch composer of the Free State anthem, dies in the Netherlands.   He never visited So23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082293event Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082221event Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem23 Apr 2012–
E-0082212event Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082093event The Natal Supreme Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria23 Apr 2012–
E-0082092event Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee23 Apr 2012–
E-0081439event Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081409event Sir Bartle Frere meets the Transvaal Boers assembled in support of their claim to independence. He promises them complete freed5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081231event The first genocide trials begin in Kigali, Rwanda, against some of the 30 000 majority Hutus accused of killing Tutsis.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081216event The Chairman of the opposition Democratic Party in the Transkei, K.M. Gunzana, is elected leader to succeed Paramount Chief Vic30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081193event President Nelson Mandela earns worldwide praise for his role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081148event Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, Eastern Cape30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081130event Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081110event A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081109event The Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Steve Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081042event Margaret Thatcher opens a British Liaison Office in Namibia. It is hoped that this will become the British embassy once indepen30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081016event The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t30 Mar 2012✓
E-0080996event The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079860event Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079859event Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079848event Mthabatha Seema PAC member disappears, last seen first in the company of a policeman at the Seshego magistrate’s court and late19 Mar 2012✓

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