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E-0079596event South African author Olive Schreiner is born at Wittebergen Mission Station near Herschel in the Eastern Cape. Her best-known w16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079540event Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079506event Publication of declaration for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African Political Prisoners signed by over 4,016 Mar 2012✓
E-0079489event A special interim report by Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, commissioner at the Paarl riot inquiry, urges swift government action to br16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079438event The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079437event Robert Mugabe wins another six-year term as president of Zimbabwe after crushing his two opponents in the country’s presidentia16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079389event Mahatma Gandhi sends a telegram to Field Marshal Smuts asking him to withdraw the Asiatic Bill. He also issues a press statemen16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079381event Janet Soga (neé Burnside) is born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079380event Dr James Barry (allegedly a lady, Miranda Stuart) is appointed by Lord Charles Somerset as medical inspector of the Colony in t16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079342event Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg, editor of De Volksstem and founding member of the Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (Academy for Sci16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076884event The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, hands over specialised anti-terrorism equ12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076876event In elections to the 100-member Lebowa National Assembly, Dr. Phatudi’s ruling Lebowa People’s Party wins more than three-quarte12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076865event Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 commences: Prohibits gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considers th12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076802event News 24 reports that South Africa’s ambitious HIV/Aids treatment plan is lagging as the government struggles to plug a shortage12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076776event Samuel Maharero, who succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076744event De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076738event Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076734event ANC president Oliver Tambo and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076288event South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.5 Mar 2012–
E-0076286event Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund5 Mar 2012–
E-0076276event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that a thorough inquiry into Transkei land claims has been made5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076274event All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit5 Mar 2012–
E-0076269event Angry White workers, on strike since 28 December, storm and occupy police stations, railway installations and mines at the Rand5 Mar 2012–
E-0076251event Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076249event Mafikeng shuts down, and sporadic protests in the town and in neighbouring Mmabatho are halted by police and military troops.5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076227event A rusty 1.4kg shell, dating back to 1901, explodes in the playground of a Johannesburg school, injuring more than thirty childr5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076196event Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074734event In reaction to newspaper reports, Prime Minister P.W. Botha states through the media, that he will not be ‘blackmailed into a d24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074713event Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074697event It is announced at a Convention (2-3 March) that the United Democratic Front is to end its activities and will formally disband24 Feb 2012✓

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