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E-0089218event Clement Msomi, organiser of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), is shot dead by two men in a passing ca27 Jul 2012✓
E-0086452event The United Nations (UN) Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. In October 1950 South Africa sent its22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086432event The rugby match between SA and France ends in a tie with 20 each.  It is François Pienaar’s first match as Springbok captain.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086406event Makgatho Mandela, Mandela’s second and only living son from his marriage to Evelyn, is born on the National Day of Protest and22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086404event Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086234event Violence continued in Kwazulu-Natal. Thirty-seven murdered are reported on 22-23 June and fourteen on 24 June. The victims incl15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086202event Muhammad Ahmad ibn al Sayyid Abd Allah, who declared himself as the Mahdi, religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1881, di15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086191event Gerda Theron, mother of Charlize Theron, shoots her husband in their home in Benoni.   The court later found that she did it15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086146event Britain annexes the rest of Zululand. Dinuzulu is subsequently banished to St Helena. This date is given as 19 May 1887 by15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086028event Leonid Shvetsov of Russia sets a new recod of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 Comrades Marathon Down15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085988event Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085983event Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he15 Jun 2012–
E-0088924event Following decisions by the ‘Committee of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088840event Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088733event The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088723event Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088722event In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088669event An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085865event Three people die and sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo’s Bar on the Durban beach.   ANC member Robert McBri8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085831event Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085785event The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BAAM) holds an 11-hour rock concert at Wembley Stadium in London to pay tribute to Nelson8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085723event Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak8 Jun 2012–
E-0085722event Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.8 Jun 2012–
E-0085684event Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re8 Jun 2012–
E-0085681event Voters in South-West Africa/Namibia go to the polls to vote for a constituent assembly, which is to draw up a new constitution8 Jun 2012–
E-0088589event Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey, the first French Resident General of Morocco, dies in France. His body is to be interred at Rabat20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088477event This Day reports Premier S’bu Ndebele of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an urgent investigation into bombs discovered in the legislat13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088373event The Santos of Germany, weighing 163 tons, sinks near Mossel Bay with a cargo of skins, dried fruit and wool from Cape Town.13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088371event Almost 200 Black families, who were removed from their land in Eersterus, east of Pretoria in the 1950’s, receive R17 million f13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088365event British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock is held at gunpoint by security forces in Zimbabwe when his plane lands at the ‘wrong’13 Jul 2012✓

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