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E-0089297event Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089285event Work is stopped at the Kimberley mine after forty-three years when it becomes uneconomical to operate at a depth of 1 083 m.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089258event A forty-eight-hour strike and a week of mass action starts to force an early transition to majority rule and effective measures27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089174event Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089159event (Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089141event Martin West, first lieutenant governor of Natal after annexation by the British on 12 May 1843, dies. (Muller: 500 Years: a his27 Jul 2012–
E-0086447event Omar Badsha, SA photographer, trade unionist and political activist, is born in Durban. He is currently head of the Non Governm22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086402event The charter of the United Nations is adopted in San Francisco, USA, with SA prime minister, Gen. Smuts, present. The preamble o22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086401event Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg.  He was22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086347event Governor Johan Bax of the Cape, who waged war against the Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) Chief Gonnema from 1676, concludes ‘a good, las22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086277event Field-cornet Salmon van As is executed by a firing squad after being found guilty by a British  Martial court of murdering Ca22 Jun 2012✓
R-0086247archive ’General Strike’ Statement by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the National Action Council following the stay-at-home in May 1961118 Jun 2012–
E-0086214event A spokesman for the World Council of Churches says in Geneva that the government has refused permission for Bishop Zulu to atte15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086211event Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop the hooliganism of Whit15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086204event Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086156event Anglo-South African driver Pat Fairfield dies of injuries sustained in a crash in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086118event Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086114event General Nasser, president of Egypt, announces a plan to protect the ancient temples at Abu Simbel by moving them to a nearby si15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086104event Hieronymus Cruse (57), German born explorer and soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company, who led several barter15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086017event Armed hostel inmates shoot and hack their way through the Black township of Boipatong, leaving forty-six people dead and scores15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088990event Funeral service of Rivonia trialist and MK cadre Wilton Mkwayi takes place in King William’s Town.  He was awarded this honour20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088930event An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg.  One pers20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088928event South Africa has decided to close its Consulate in Wellington instead of waiting for New Zealand’s new Government to carry out20 Jul 2012–
E-0088911event The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088897event South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088889event Harry Mashabela, reporter for the Star and Patrick Weech, sub-editor for the Rand Daily Mail, are arrested under Section 6 of t20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088866event CNN announces that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspected mastermind of the bomb attacks in London on July 7, hid in South Africa f20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088843event The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088841event ’Sorry Gandhi’ 105 years later. The following apology by the current president of the Natal Law Society, David Randles, is publ20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088732event Prof. Ulrich Gerhard Lauts (78), who reported on the Great Trek and further adventures of the Voortrekkers and who was appointe20 Jul 2012✓

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