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E-0079691event Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079681event American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079664event The African National Congress (ANC) leads a march through central Durban, attended by up to 100,000 people, to demand their vot16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079663event Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military aide, then flee from governmen16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079621event Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into a crowd in Soweto during a march to the Soweto City Council16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079620event Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079611event Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo.  He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 1916 Mar 2012✓
E-0079589event Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079561event Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079558event Dr William Nicol, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and Administrator of Transvaal from 1948-1958, is born in Robertson, CC16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079505event Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079466event Responding to the British Labour government’s re-imposition of an embargo on arms sales to South Africa, John Vorster tells Bri16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079416event Thomas Thornton becomes the first air passenger in SA when he pays Albert Kimmerling £100 for a short flight from Sydenham Hil16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079410event Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079348event Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076781event Tertius Bosch, SA cricket player in one test match against the West Indies (1991-1992), is born in Vereeniging. (Wallis; Nuusda12 Mar 2012–
E-0076760event The former Prime Minister and President, John Vorster, re-emerges into public life with a speech in Bloemfontein in which he qu12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076739event Chief Lucas Mangope is deposed as leader of Bophuthatswana. Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as the territory’s new adminis12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076735event About 10 000 people march to the president’s office in Thohoyandou, carrying a human skull believed to be that of a ritual murd12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076291event South Africa wins the third cricket test match against Pakistan in Port Elizabeth, Fanie de Villiers’ last match, with 259 runs5 Mar 2012–
E-0076252event In response to a question by Mr R Jankielsohn (DP) in the National Assembly, President Mbeki replies that he spent 300 days in5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076243event Police announce that they have picked up twenty-five bodies from various parts of Katlehong township, mostly from the area arou5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076242event Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076195event Violence erupts when 50 000 (or 100 000 according to police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Od5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074746event Four striking truckers are shot and wounded by a security guard when about 150 protesters storm the gates of Cargo Carriers in24 Feb 2012–
E-0074737event Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074736event ZANU-PF under Robert Mugabe wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe becomes president. http://www.news24.24 Feb 2012–
E-0074695event Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) chief-of-staff Chris Hani says as long as the SADF continues recruitment and training, his organisation24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074676event Jonathan Ayliff resigns because of ill health as minister of colonial affairs from the cabinet of Thomas Upington, but plays an24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074624event Cricketer Daryll Cullinan sets the highest Test score by a South African batsman, scoring 275 not out against New Zealand in Au24 Feb 2012✓

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