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E-0086237event In another shark attack on the Eastern Cape coast, a White killer shark at Gonubie Point mutilates the 20-year old Anton de Vos15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088839event The SA cricket team loses the fourth test against England on Trent Bridge with 8 wickets. One test remains to be played and bot20 Jul 2012✓
E-0074506event The electoral college elects T.E. Donges as the next State President by 163 votes to fifty-two, cast for Major van der Byl.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074297event The Political Council agrees to Marthinus Bergh’s request that he and his two sons be allowed to go to the Netherlands to plea17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079627event An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079378event Six people die and twenty five are critically injured in a road accident on the R70 between Polokwane and Giyani when the truck16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076855event Ernst Frederik de Swart opens the first coffee house in the Cape when permission is granted to him to serve refreshments to pas12 Mar 2012✓
E-0092529event Thirty-one SA pilots participates in the air-lift to provide food and fuel to West Berlin. The operation continued for seven mo27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092488event Jan C. de Waal (92), farmer who endeavoured to increase sheep numbers in the Orange Free State after the Anglo-Boer War and who27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091328event Hendrik Swellengrebel, the only Cape governor to be born at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.  Swellendam is named after him and23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090136event Talks between Egypt and Israel in an attempt to end disputes over the Gaza Strip fail. The talks were doomed after Israeli forc10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090944event The UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions against Libya that had been in place for eleven years as a response to the 198814 Aug 2012✓
E-0092820event The ANC announces that it is postponing its national conference, set for 15 December 1990, until June 1991, due to the slow pac28 Aug 2012–
E-0081853event Oliver John (Jack) Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA Jack Hindon medal for outstanding service is named, is born in Scotla13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081755event US attempts an air strike at Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi’s home in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083644event WWII:  The 1st SA Infantry Brigade is called up for continuous training, to be followed by other units, including the SA Artil18 May 2012✓
E-0082591event Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran3 May 2012✓
E-0081402event João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind.  The stone is now kept in the South African M5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081097event Paul Nash equals the world record for the 100-metre sprint when he clocks 10 seconds at a meeting in Krugersdorp. He also runs30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079734event South Africa is readmitted to the Olympic games on condition that it complies within thirty days to terms laid down by the Inte16 Mar 2012✓
E-0070908event Three SA farmers from the Eastern Cape, who have crossed the border to Lesotho to search for stolen cattle, are shot and killed9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070864event Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda. When it seemed like the opposition DP party might win, the chair9 Dec 2011–
E-0070805event The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073472event Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073739event Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073689event The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cote d’Ivoure ends in a tie with one goal scored on each side.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072779event The Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head.  16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072432event The Star reports that in an interim report issued by the Harms Commission it is claimed that Mr Peet De Pontes, National Party16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072960event Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072959event The first Boy Scout troop is organised in England by Robert Baden-Powell. The Boy Scouts are active world wide, also in SA.20 Jan 2012✓

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