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E-0073672event A delegation from Mauritius arrives in Cape Town to discuss ways of strengthening links between Mauritius and South Africa.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072887event Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and member of parliament, dies at Fairfield, Caledon district, Western Cape.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072878event Kwame Nkrumah, who became first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is imprisoned and becomes a national hero.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071882event Leaders of South Africa’s major sports federations agree to work towards a blanket moratorium on all contact with international6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071870event After thirty months of fighting, Biafra capitulates to Nigeria. Biafra leader General Odumegwu Ojukwu flees with his family.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073436event State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, centred on privatisation, deregu31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073177event World Leprosy Day: Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental organisations gather in South Africa from 30 Janua27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073171event Patrick McCall, member of Stander’s bank robber gang, is killed by police in Stander’s hideout in Houghton, Johannesburg.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073135event Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup27 Jan 2012✓
E-0072999event Minister of Manpower and Public Works, Pietie du Plessis, resigns over a financial scandal involving his department and a compa20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071575event Restoration of SA citizenship, announced by parliament on 15 December 1993, becomes effective. More than seven million people i14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071357event Cariango, Angola is taken by Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) guerril14 Dec 2011✓
E-0011756event Kwame Nkrumah is released from jail16 Mar 2011✓
R-0108728archive Statement on the Wiehahn Commission Report and its implications issued by FOSATU after its central committee meeting on the 18 and 19 May 197922 Feb 2016–
R-0068491archive Opening Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, 19 February 199311 Oct 2011–
E-0087814event A month-long cease-fire ends in the Middle East as Egypt attacks Israeli positions by air. At the same time Iraq attacks by lan6 Jul 2012✓
E-0089301event The Greek liner Oceanos sinks off the South Africa coast in heavy seas; all 571 on board are rescued by 35 Squadron, in company31 Jul 2012✓
E-0086166event Gary Player wins the US Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles. Player, fro15 Jun 2012–
E-0086165event Gary Player wins the US Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top-pro golf titles. Player, fro15 Jun 2012✓
E-0074294event Miriam Makeba is nominated in the category World Music Album for her album Homeland at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Ang17 Feb 2012✓
E-0092332event Sally Knight Little, SA golf player who won the individual title in the world golf championship in Spain in 1970, is born in Ca27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092175event A key suspect in the bomb attack on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, who was tracked down in Cape Town by t27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091857event France confirms that it is selling two new combat submarines to South Africa, to help SA to protect the oil route round the Cap24 Aug 2012✓
E-0082841event The Zulu chiefs are informed that their land has been annexed to the British Empire.   This date is given as 19 May in anothe7 May 2012✓
E-0082538event Gov. George Napier wants to cut off the Voortrekkers from the harbour in Port Natal and sends Capt. Smith with 125 men by land3 May 2012✓
E-0082295event Freedom Day. Pres. Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated for his second term as president on the same day the RSA celebrates its 10th anni23 Apr 2012✓
E-0079796event Soldiers from Uruguay become the first armed UN troops to set up camp in Congo in an effort to end the 2 1/2-year civil war.19 Mar 2012–
E-0079795event Soldiers from Uruguay become the first armed UN troops to set up camp in Congo in an effort to end the 2 1/2-year civil war.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070364event Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, wins the Fifa Fair Play award, but is sent off the next day in a League game for Leeds.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070982event Vlermuisklip near Vredendal on the West Coast is used as stay-over for the first time by Pieter Everaerts and his group on an e9 Dec 2011✓

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