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E-0087462event SA tennis player Liezel Huber and Cara Black of Zimbabwe win the women’s doubles on Wimbledon. Huber also reached the semi-fina28 Jun 2012–
E-0089471event The SA cricket team beats England in the second test in Nottingham, thereby scoring the first victory over the English in ten y31 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-0089321event The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, to which SA is a party, is signed i31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089307event About half of the filling stations in urban SA run dry because of a country wide strike of workers in the chemical industry.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0086462event The SA athlete Marcello Fiasconaro sets a new world record in the 800 m race in an athletic contest in Milan.  He achieves the22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086439event Josephus Suasso de Lima, editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, De Verzamelaar, is born in Amsterdam, the Net22 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-0086417event Sisulu makes the first broadcast on “Radio Freedom” from a secret hideout in SA. He urges the youth to join forces and continue22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086416event Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and Gen. J.C. Smuts, dies in Stell22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086335event The SA rugby team, with François Pienaar as captain, wins the World Cup final match against New Zealand 15-12.  Joel Stransky22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086217event The match between the SA rugby team and the British Lions ends in a tie, with both sides scoring 6 points in Port Elizabeth.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086206event The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers.  Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086155event Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town.  He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c15 Jun 2012–
E-0085988event Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0088986event At the final poetry performance at the Urban Voices festival, SA poet Don Mattera, widely known as Bra Zinga, announces his wit20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088950event News 24 reports that the worst fires in SA history wrecked havoc in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal during the past weekend. Fires20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088700event Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085852event SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085636event WWII: The 6th SA Armoured Division, having reached the watershed of Castiglione dei Pepoli in Italy, pushes forward to take Mon8 Jun 2012✓
E-0085603event The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by8 Jun 2012✓
E-0088337event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088311event Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,13 Jul 2012✓
E-0088232event Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat), journalist and writer who left SA by means of an exit permit and could never return, jumps from13 Jul 2012✓
E-0084897event The monument at Delville Wood, unveiled on 10 October 1926 to honour the thousands of SA soldiers who were killed there during1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084894event The Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation Act is accepted by the SA parliament, thereby paving the way for the founding of ISCO1 Jun 2012✓
E-0084782event Security police arrive at Naledi High School and attempt to arrest the leader of the local branch of the SA Students Movement.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074273event The troopship SS Mendi collides with the Darro near the Isle of Wright.   It sinks with a contingent of Black SA troops, on t17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074213event Eastern Province Herald reports that for the first time in SA police history three Black policemen were promoted to the rank of17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074035event The ANC expresses deep concern about latest revelations that the SA Defence Force had a budget of R 4.38 billion for its secret10 Feb 2012✓

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