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E-0091282event SA gains 180 medals during the 7th All Africa Games that ends in Johannesburg; followed by Egypt with 156 and Nigeria with 128.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0089712event Libya and families of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland sign an agreement to pay as muc10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089704event At least one PAGAD member is reported arrested on charges of murder and sedition. On the same day PAGAD says it is seeking aid10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091048event Absa Bank hands an old warrant of arrest for Nelson Mandela, dated May 18, 1961, to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo14 Aug 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-0083325event Mobutu Sese Seko, who has ruled Zaire for more than 30 years, looting it of billions of dollars, flees the capital city as rebe14 May 2012✓
E-0082675event Rwanda frees more than 22 000 detainees, most of whom were held in connection with the 1994 massacre of some 800 000 ethnic Tut3 May 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-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-0069988event Prime Minister J.C. Smuts appoints Dr H.J. van der Bijl to the post of Director General of War Supplies, making him, next to Sm21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069925event Dr Robert Smit, National Party MP for Springs, and his wife, Jean-Cora, are murdered in their home in Springs. The TRC found in21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069862event Jan Jacobus van der Post, SA author who lived as a boy with the San for several years where he learned their language and custo21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069626event The Suez Canal in Egypt, which has taken ten years to build, is formally opened.  Date is given as 16th in some sources.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070547event Kwame Nkrumah, first premier and later president of Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) is born. He is seen by many as the father of Pa5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070333event Jan Jacobus van der Post, SA author who lived as a boy with the San for several years and who learned their language and custom25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070322event All speakers raise grave concern on World AIDS Day about the growing number of AIDS orphans in SA, many of whom who are raised25 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-0073447event Up to 200 Somali youths hurl rocks at US forces and set tyre barricades ablaze in the belief that American troops shot to death31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073408event The 25th automated teller machine (ATM) this year is badly damaged after it is blown up in a shopping centre in Orange farm. Th31 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-0073148event In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file for divorce under a new law that doesn’t require women to prove ph27 Jan 2012✓
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-0071335event Comic Relief is launched live on BBC ONE from a refugee camp in Safawa, Sudan, in response to the African famine. As well as do14 Dec 2011✓
R-0072138archive XII - Unanswered Questions13 Jan 2012–
R-0072125archive 44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’13 Jan 2012–
R-0149753archive Anton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone17 Nov 2019✓
E-0010882event Extracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches16 Mar 2011–
A-0069391article African National Congress Timeline 1990-1999 7 Nov 2011✓

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