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E-0083916event Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn, too weak to leave his tent, resigns because of poor health and Gen. C.R. de Wet is appointe25 May 2012✓
E-0081867event The Boeing 707 Pretoria of SAA crashes just after take off from the Windhoek airport en route to London with 122 people on boar13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081805event The Union Jack is lowered for the last time in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of Rhodesia becomes Zimb13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081776event At a summit meeting in Lusaka (14-16 April) the leaders of East and Central African States on 16 April 1969 agree to issue the13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081729event Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083559event The chief of MK in Natal, Theophilus Dlodlo, and Nomsa Msomi are shot and killed, and Candy Ntshonsho is injured in the car in18 May 2012–
E-0083558event The chief of MK in Natal, Theophilus Dlodlo, and Nomsa Msomi are shot and killed, and Candy Ntshonsho is injured in the car in18 May 2012✓
E-0083104event King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops.   The dates 12 February and 13 May are given by other s11 May 2012✓
E-0082134event Mr Justice P.J. van der Walt acquits Moses Mayekiso and his four co-accused of all charges. They were arrested on 28 June 198623 Apr 2012✓
E-0081478event Dr Paul Bosman is murdered in his home in Shelly Beach, KwaZulu Natal, ten days after his retirement as head of the SA veterina5 Apr 2012✓
E-0079819event Pope John Paul II issues the 11th encyclical of his papacy in which he condemns abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079760event Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer and settler  who was a member of an expedition to the Zulu chief Shaka in the 1820s, is born in Lo19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079752event All twenty-three mineworkers in a lift of the Vaal Reefs gold mine are killed when they plunge more that two km to the bottom.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070161event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Modder River or Tweerivieren takes place, in which both Gen. Methuen and Gen. De la Rey are wou25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069873event A Pretoria biker is caught doing 284km/h on his Suzuki motorcycle on the R59. He earns the dubious honour of being the offender21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069735event In a second murder during the same night, Billy Meyer, 43, of Lovedale farm in the Mara district near Makhado is shot in the he11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069675event Johanna Brandt, nurse and spy for the Boer forces during Anglo-Boer War 2 and also author of several books on the war and natur11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070282event Col. J.F. Jordaan of the SA force captures Gen. Christiaan de Wet, on his way to German South West Africa at Waterbury, near Vr25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070224event The bodies of world-famous South African opera star Deon van der Walt and his father have been found on their wine estate near25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071044event Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) is formed to "hit back by all means within our power in defence of our people, our future and our fr9 Dec 2011–
E-0071016event Anglo-Boer War 1: The first shots in this war are fired in Potchefstroom. The war ended with the defeat of the British in the b9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073554event A number of women call on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make thei31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072710event Mr Sol Kerzner admits in an affidavit to the Harms Commission that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Mat16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073326event Gen. Christiaan Rudolph de Wet (67), well-known leader of Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2, dies on his farm.  He was given31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073161event Paul Emile Rossouw, the first athlete in the world to jump higher than 2.13 m at the age of 16, is born in Springs.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073144event Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in27 Jan 2012✓
E-0071620event Vasco da Gama comes ashore at the mouth of the Limpopo River. He and his crew make the first White contact with Black southern14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071577event What appears to be a power failure brings down a ten-year-old Boeing 737 shortly after take-off from the Red Sea resort of Shar14 Dec 2011–
E-0071362event Louis van Assenburgh (51), successor of Willem Adriaan van der Stel as governor at the Cape, dies in the Castle in Cape Town af14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071327event Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat, former president of Egypt, is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt. Date is given as 24 December by several o14 Dec 2011✓

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