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E-0074145event Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to Ceylon as a gift to the King of Kandy. http://www.news24.com 17 Feb 2012–
E-0074035event The ANC expresses deep concern about latest revelations that the SA Defence Force had a budget of R 4.38 billion for its secret10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079662event The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079635event The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act is passed by the British Parliament. It outlaws the slave trade within the British Em16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079605event The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079585event At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079575event The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079406event Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079401event The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079394event The Defence and Aid Fund is banned as an unlawful organisation under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is an autonomous Sout16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079365event More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079340event Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076860event James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076777event Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076774event Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076755event Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076742event Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076730event Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076726event In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a documented report on the low wages paid to Black workers12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076281event The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr5 Mar 2012–
E-0076266event Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w5 Mar 2012–
E-0076258event The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the first gold was discovered, is registered in the5 Mar 2012–
E-0076230event £100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076229event The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076213event A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076202event Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from the place where his wife was ki5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076197event The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074782event The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074743event Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k24 Feb 2012–
E-0074739event The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i24 Feb 2012✓

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