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E-0084808event Joshua Nkomo, president of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) and a future vice-president of Zimbabwe, is born at a Lon1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084788event ANC leader Nelson Mandela says in Geneva, Switzerland, that SA’s Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084785event More than one million Black South African workers, following a call by South Africa’s two biggest trade unions, the Congress of1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074497event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Despite his age and a painful eye infection, President Kruger leaves Pretoria by train for the Natal Front17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074482event Lucas Mbembe (60), ANC official and chair of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers Association, is gunned down after coming from a c17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074479event Six pupils and teachers are killed and more than eighty injured when the taxi feud spills over to Katlehong schools.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074422event William W.P. Selborne (82), British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony (1905-1909),17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074379event Rival taxi groups attack each other at the Natalspruit Hospital taxi rank, starting a conflict that later spread to other parts17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074367event A military coup in Ghana deposes President Kwame Nkrumah while he is out of the country on his way to China. ;17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074334event Johannes van der Walt, member of the Ossewa-Brandwag (O.B.)and world renowned wrestler, who escaped from police detention after17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074317event Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC "peace17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074288event SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074263event Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074256event Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces a referendum for 17 March  to establish the opinion of White voters towards his political reform17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074236event Prof. Adriaan Francken, professor in Dutch and French at Grey University College in Bloemfontein and founding member of the Onz17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074234event Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074225event Gunmen kill eighteen young ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal, the first major act of violence in a Zulu anti-election campaign.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074222event US President George Bush authorises the Export-Import Bank to underwrite US exports to South Africa, officially ending a ban th17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074194event Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (58), British philanthropist who had a strong influence on the British policy in South Africa, dies in17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074155event Dr Hasmukh Gajjar, medical practitioner, former chair of the Vodacom Group and managing director of various IT companies, is bo17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074084event Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the Black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of intent’10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074071event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. French relieves Kimberley after a siege of 123 days.  The town has suffered only 134 casualties among a10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074042event Kurds occupy and take hostages at the Greek embassies in several European countries to protest Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ca10 Feb 2012✓
E-0074039event Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079687event On this date all Africans become citizens of their ethnic ‘homelands’. However, they will not become foreigners in the Republic16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079685event Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079672event British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’.   Warden and his family take up res16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079645event Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler who was known as the ‘Gemaskerde Wonder’ (Masked Wonder), dies in Johannesburg after being w16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079636event William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079616event Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies16 Mar 2012✓

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