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E-0086206event The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers.  Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086191event Gerda Theron, mother of Charlize Theron, shoots her husband in their home in Benoni.   The court later found that she did it15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086189event The South African Parliament votes to amend the Internal Security Act No. 74 of 1982. Police will in future need the permission15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086146event Britain annexes the rest of Zululand. Dinuzulu is subsequently banished to St Helena. This date is given as 19 May 1887 by15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086134event Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086011event The Status of the Transkei Bill passes its second reading in the Senate, despite opposition from the United Party and the Progr15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085967event John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren15 Jun 2012✓
E-0089137event The British fleet under Lord Nelson defeats the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, at Aboukir Bay, Egypt, thus thwarting N27 Jul 2012✓
E-0088985event The Namibian soccer team beats the SA Bafana Bafana 4-1 in Windhoek, thereby entering the semi-final round of the Cosafa Cup Se20 Jul 2012–
E-0088984event The Namibian soccer team beats the SA Bafana Bafana 4-1 in Windhoek, thereby entering the semi-final round of the Cosafa Cup Se20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088963event The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, states at a Nationalist Party meeting that he is not prepared to lift the ninety-day det20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088927event South Africa has held up supplies of British weapons to Lesotho and the UK has complained several times about the delays, offic20 Jul 2012–
E-0088886event Edward Motale, SA soccer player who was awarded the accolade, ‘Footballer of the Season 95’ by Kick Off, is born in Pretoria. (20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088754event Senior ANC member, ‘Mac’ Maharaj and over forty other members of the ANC and the SACP, are detained for allegedly attempting to20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088733event The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088723event Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088700event Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088669event An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085852event SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085802event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The two-day Battle of Diamond Hill or Donkerhoek, started on the previous day, ends when darkness sets in a8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085723event Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak8 Jun 2012–
E-0085722event Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.8 Jun 2012–
E-0085636event WWII: The 6th SA Armoured Division, having reached the watershed of Castiglione dei Pepoli in Italy, pushes forward to take Mon8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085626event The Directors of the Dutch East India Company (Heeren XVII or Lords Seventeen) propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possib8 Jun 2012✓
E-0088589event Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey, the first French Resident General of Morocco, dies in France. His body is to be interred at Rabat20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088480event News 24 reports that the all-girls choir of Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool in Pretoria won first place and gold in the folklore w13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088477event This Day reports Premier S’bu Ndebele of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an urgent investigation into bombs discovered in the legislat13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088467event A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088462event In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088371event Almost 200 Black families, who were removed from their land in Eersterus, east of Pretoria in the 1950’s, receive R17 million f13 Jul 2012✓

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