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E-0089329event Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the31 Jul 2012–
E-0089326event Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089308event Queen Mother Elizabeth celebrates her 100th birthday as thousands line the roads of London to cheer her. Her popularity stems i31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089297event Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089285event Work is stopped at the Kimberley mine after forty-three years when it becomes uneconomical to operate at a depth of 1 083 m.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089267event Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089225event Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of the Transkei, claims that President Mandela had told him that Sol Kerzner (former head of Sun I27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089197event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Lord Roberts sends his Chief of Staff, Lord Kitchener, to take overall command of the forces engaged agains27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089141event Martin West, first lieutenant governor of Natal after annexation by the British on 12 May 1843, dies. (Muller: 500 Years: a his27 Jul 2012–
E-0086481event Archduke Frans Ferdinand, Austrian heir to the throne, and his wife are shot and killed by a student in Sarajevo.   This lead22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086447event Omar Badsha, SA photographer, trade unionist and political activist, is born in Durban. He is currently head of the Non Governm22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086401event Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg.  He was22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086353event Pres. Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station and accompanies him to his hotel to22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086313event Sir Leander Starr Jameson, in charge of affairs in Rhodesia, refuses entry to 110 Trekkers of the Adendorff trek, who congregat22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086299event A peace summit  (23-24 June) brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086272event Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086219event Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086156event Anglo-South African driver Pat Fairfield dies of injuries sustained in a crash in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086114event General Nasser, president of Egypt, announces a plan to protect the ancient temples at Abu Simbel by moving them to a nearby si15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086112event Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Soweto.  From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the YWCA (Young15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086063event Theophilus (Offy) Shepstone, son of Sir Theophilus and adviser of Mbandzeni, chief of the Swazi nation, is born in Fort Peddie.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086062event William John Burchell leaves Cape Town with a specially built wagon on a journey, which was to last four years, to explore the15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086017event Armed hostel inmates shoot and hack their way through the Black township of Boipatong, leaving forty-six people dead and scores15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085973event The ANC begins an open-ended campaign of public protest with a day of rallies, work stoppages and threats of a crippling genera15 Jun 2012–
E-0088937event Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088904event John Hanning Speke, British discoverer, names the lake he discovers in Africa, Lake Victoria, in honour of Queen Victoria of th20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088901event Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088881event Ms Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks, Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa since 22 June 2005, is born.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088782event The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088717event Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol20 Jul 2012✓

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