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E-0093114event P.W. Botha (90), former state president of South Africa who took the first steps to change some apartheid measures, dies at his28 Aug 2012–
E-0093112event About sixty people have been injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on the N1 south, near Murrayhill, north of Pret28 Aug 2012–
E-0093110event EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe28 Aug 2012–
E-0093106event Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d28 Aug 2012–
E-0093008event Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, dies in Stellenbosch. She was known for her promotion of the arts and as an28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092913event Israeli President Yitzhak Navon becomes the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt. His welcome by Anwar al-Sadat is carrie28 Aug 2012✓
E-0087924event Mr Justice W.H. Heath finds Bonakele Jwabi and fifteen other men guilty of murder relating to the abduction and burning to deat6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087738event Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.6 Jul 2012✓
E-0087576event The Africa Union (AU) summit opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and agrees to send 300 AU troops to protect ceasefire monitors in28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087563event A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African Natio28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087531event The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087513event As France announces that the Sahara will not be included in its plan for an independent Algeria, eighty people are killed and a28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087495event Granny Maloko Temo of Mantata near Dendron, eldest person in SA and allegedly eldest in the world, celebrates her 130th birthda28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087447event A restriction order is served on Harold Strachan of Durban in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. He has already been im28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087428event President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa’s constitution from 75 per cent to28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087369event Helen Joseph, who has been under a series of banning orders since she became the first South African to be placed under house a28 Jun 2012✓
R-0087128archive Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon in his Honour Hosted by President Dr Carlos Menem Buenos Aires, 23 July 199827 Jun 2012–
E-0089610event About 150 residents are killed (1215 August) during the forced expulsion of non-IFP from hostels and attacks on Phola Park squa31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089451event Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089430event Anglo-Boer War 2:  At Buffelshoek, a council of war adopts De Wet’s proposal to reduce the number of wagons to one per twenty-31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089377event Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089234event Erasmus Smit, controversial preacher of the Voortrekkers, dies one day after his 85th birthday and one week after his wife, Sus27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089218event Clement Msomi, organiser of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), is shot dead by two men in a passing ca27 Jul 2012✓
E-0086452event The United Nations (UN) Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. In October 1950 South Africa sent its22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086432event The rugby match between SA and France ends in a tie with 20 each.  It is François Pienaar’s first match as Springbok captain.22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086406event Makgatho Mandela, Mandela’s second and only living son from his marriage to Evelyn, is born on the National Day of Protest and22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086404event Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086234event Violence continued in Kwazulu-Natal. Thirty-seven murdered are reported on 22-23 June and fourteen on 24 June. The victims incl15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086202event Muhammad Ahmad ibn al Sayyid Abd Allah, who declared himself as the Mahdi, religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1881, di15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086191event Gerda Theron, mother of Charlize Theron, shoots her husband in their home in Benoni.   The court later found that she did it15 Jun 2012✓

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