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E-0083129event Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv11 May 2012✓
E-0083066event Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train11 May 2012✓
E-0082519event A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082341event The Jonker diamond, fourth largest stone on record, is cut in three after an intensive study of three months.  It was found by23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082244event The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082118event Security forces round up more than 10,000 men in the biggest anti-Mau Mau operation since the state of emergency was declared i23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082107event James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at23 Apr 2012–
E-0081402event João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind.  The stone is now kept in the South African M5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081192event Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081143event Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep in Namaqualand starts as Gen. Smuts demands the surrender of the town but is curtly reject30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081132event Pieter Gijsbert van Noodt, governor at the Cape who allegedly died while four people were being hung on his order, is born in N30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081114event George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081113event The Merensteijn strands at Jutten Island at the west Cape coast and sinks with a cargo of gold and silver, which is salvaged in30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081097event Paul Nash equals the world record for the 100-metre sprint when he clocks 10 seconds at a meeting in Krugersdorp. He also runs30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081011event Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079835event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079805event In the 1977-78 Budget introduced by the Minister of Finance, Senator Owen Horwood, the amount to be spent on defence is given a19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079794event At least fifty-two people including thirty-two children under the age of two are slain by axe-wielding assailants in south Alge19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079759event The death toll after an outbreak of a deadly Ebola-like disease in Angola climbs to 122. The country turns to civilians and the19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079711event Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T16 Mar 2012✓
E-0069552event The General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time. The headquarters of the League of Nations has11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070408event Mr Mhleli and Dr Warren Zolile Nombe are acquitted in the Umtata regional court of charges relating to terrorism and the ANC on5 Dec 2011✓
E-0071220event At the conclusion of a forty-four day inquest into the death in detention of the White trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett, the14 Dec 2011–
E-0071174event Sir George Cathcart, governor and commander-in-chief at the Cape (31 March 1852-26 May 1854), is defeated when he attack Moshes14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070906event The first group of 120 exiles returning to South Africa under the agreement reached in August by UNHCR and the South African au9 Dec 2011–
E-0070864event Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda. When it seemed like the opposition DP party might win, the chair9 Dec 2011–
E-0070806event More than twenty-five people die in action by the SAP and SADF when residents of the Old Location, Windhoek, resist forced remo9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070805event The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069085event Mzi Khumalo, since 2000 non-executive chair of Mawenzi Resources Ltd and Board member of Mintek, is born in Durban. He was dire1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073793event At a meeting in Durban City hall Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini tells President de Klerk that he is prepared to set up a Zulu Ki31 Jan 2012✓

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