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E-0086299event A peace summit  (23-24 June) brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086272event Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086219event Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086112event Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Soweto.  From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the YWCA (Young15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086062event William John Burchell leaves Cape Town with a specially built wagon on a journey, which was to last four years, to explore the15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088982event Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088937event Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088901event Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088782event The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088717event Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085759event A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085689event Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the8 Jun 2012–
E-0088609event Muntu Gasa (26), former Imbali Special Constable and Inkatha member turned ANC, is shot in the head three times in Pietermaritz20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088585event Anglo-Boer War 2: Captain Danie Theron and his men capture a train from the Welsh fusiliers. After looting what they could carr20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088449event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General C.J. Spruyt is killed in action while attempting to cross the railway line between Val Station a13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088366event An agreement to restore peace in Liberia is reached by the warring factions, whose accord includes a cease-fire, an interim gov13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088275event When Albertina marries Walter Sisulu, Anton Lembede warns her that she is marrying a man who is already married to the nation.13 Jul 2012–
E-0084958event A senior ANC member, P. Nyaose and his wife, are killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. Alfred Nzo, the ANC Secretary-General, blam1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084903event The Six Day War between Israel and its neighbouring countries Egypt, Jordan and Syria breaks out with Israel launching air stri1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074529event Gov. Simon van der Stel sends Isak Schrijver with fifteen soldiers and three mineworkers to the north to look for copper.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074318event President F.W. de Klerk and ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela share a public platform for the first time as they jointly rece17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074302event The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube, Zulu journalist and politician, is born in Inanda, Natal. Date is given as 12 February 18717 Feb 2012✓
E-0074287event Government announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074280event A South African flag is torn to pieces and three Springbok lifesavers are attacked during a near-riot at the Melbourne ocean su17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074266event The Neptune returns to England from Simons Bay, where it lay anchored from September 1849. Aboard are 288 prisoners who couldn’17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074179event The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079694event Eight political detainees are released. They will all appear as state witnesses in the ‘Barbara Hogan case’ on 30 April 1982.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079693event Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous16 Mar 2012✓
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-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✓

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