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E-0084026event J.F. (Tom) Naudé (80), member of cabinet and acting SA state president in 1967 and 1968, dies in Cape Town.25 May 2012✓
E-0081746event O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081723event Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083624event Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru18 May 2012–
E-0083623event Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru18 May 2012✓
E-0083409event Several ANC sabotage attacks take place: guerrillas attack an East London police station; sections of railway line are blown up18 May 2012✓
E-0082563event Nine people are killed at Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) during a stampede to attend a mass given by Pope J3 May 2012✓
E-0081228event Mk hero Solomon Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081193event President Nelson Mandela earns worldwide praise for his role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079859event Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070020event Nicholas Edward Brown (85), expert on SA plants, dies in Surrey, England. He never visited SA because of poor health.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069980event Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069853event Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, dies in Pretoria.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069695event After a marathon ten-hour Cabinet meeting, President F.W. de Klerk appointed Lt.-Gen. Pierre Steyn as head of all intelligence11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070558event Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070400event Egypt breaks off relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen, all opponents of its peace moves with Israel.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070229event Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071198event Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070976event Balancing bundles of food and clothing on their heads, Rwandan refugees who previously refused to return home begin re-entering9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070849event Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069034event A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073666event Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New Brighton,31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073646event Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says more than seventeen million people were arrested under influx control laws between31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073599event Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071925event Barney Cohen (53), former Drum magazine editor and chief executive officer of Urban Brew studios, dies in Johannesburg while un6 Jan 2012✓
E-0072431event A second series of meetings is held between South Africa and Mozambique in Pretoria and Maputo. Four working groups discuss sec16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073360event A telephone survey done by Research Surveys, discloses that about two-thirds of respondents said SA education is in a crisis an31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073126event A plane brings nineteen sick and weak-looking adolescents home to Uganda after months or possibly years -of captivity under Uga27 Jan 2012✓
E-0071826event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Chief Jonathan of Lesotho meet in Cape Town. A joint statement emphasises their belief in peace6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071550event Major General Bantu Holomisa, who became head of a military state in Transkei after a coup in December 1987, lifts martial law14 Dec 2011✓

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