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E-0089807event WW1: The South African brigade is called to capture Delville Wood in France in a fierce two-day battle.10 Aug 2012–
E-0089690event Seetsele Modiri (Silas Moliri) Molema, medical doctor, politician and author, dies in Mafeking (Mafikeng).   He was the eldes10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091182event WW1: The South African brigade is called to capture Delville Wood in France in a fierce two-day battle.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091157event President P.W. Botha admits in Parliament that he personally phoned the SA Broadcasting Corporation and intervened to change a23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091024event Forty-seven commuters have died on the previous and this day in attacks on Jeppe and Denver stations.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090927event Military officers depose Emperor Haile Selassie from the Ethiopian throne he had occupied for more than fifty years.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090840event A twelve-second earthquake kills 1,460 in Orleansville, Algeria. A week later another quake topples the few remaining buildings14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090772event Anglo American announces its decision to invest R4 billion in the zinc-mining project in Gamsberg, Northern Cape.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090763event A limpet-mine explosion kills a man outside a crowded centre in Northcliff, Johannesburg. Police suspect that the victim was ca14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090750event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Two burghers and a young boy are allegedly murdered after surrendering to the notorious Bushveld Carbineers14 Aug 2012✓
E-0092826event An elephant tramples German tourist Rita Hahn to death on the Hans Merensky golf course in Phalaborwa, Limpopo.28 Aug 2012✓
R-0084283archive Are Women Winning The Fight? COSATU Women Battle For Their Rights by Shamim Meer (SPEAK), July 1991, Johannesburg31 May 2012–
E-0083996event Die Brandwag, Afrikaans magazine, is published for the first time with Gustav Preller and W.M.R. Malherbe as editors.25 May 2012✓
E-0082034event Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081988event The prime minister announces a new sport policy in which he distinguishes between multiracial sport and multinational sport. Mu23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081911event Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson agrees to let all foreigners leave Monrovia’s US Embassy compound and let the peacekeepers s13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081804event Dorothy Fischer becomes the first woman in SA to receive a new heart.  She lives for twelve years afterwards. 13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081761event The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081602event Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081598event Traditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper  (or Longlife Together to the locals), aged 38, dies suddenly from natura5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081597event Wouter Basson, a scientist who headed South Africa’s covert chemicaland germ-warfare operations during the apartheid era, is ac5 Apr 2012–
E-0081577event Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr5 Apr 2012–
E-0081576event Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr5 Apr 2012–
E-0083681event The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Afr18 May 2012✓
E-0083532event Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace talks United Kingdom. Chamberlain queries the clause concerning native political rights, but Milner rep18 May 2012–
E-0083446event The Bulhoek massacre, during which police fire on charging ‘Israelites’, a religious sect who refuse to leave a squatters’ sett18 May 2012✓
E-0083339event The Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh is held by British forces as involvement in civil war increases.14 May 2012✓
E-0083250event Jacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title. Jacob Matlala [online] Available at14 May 2012–
E-0083196event Prof. Johannes du Plessis Scholtz, linguist, author and historian, is born in the Hottentots-Holland district, Cape Colony.11 May 2012✓
E-0083185event The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA11 May 2012–

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