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E-0091006event WWI: The first ships with SA soldiers on board leave for the ports of German South West Africa to invade the territory.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090975event B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090751event Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090721event The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by14 Aug 2012–
R-0103818archive Biko, the State and the SA Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) and now the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA): Editorial comment22 Feb 2016–
E-0092800event The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan28 Aug 2012✓
E-0083998event Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa25 May 2012✓
E-0083872event Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg.   He was born deaf and atten25 May 2012✓
E-0083841event The hijack drama involving an SA Airways Boeing 727 the Letaba ends at Blantyre’s Chileka Airport in Malawi when the two hijack25 May 2012✓
E-0081643event Dr Abraham Johannes van der Merwe, SA church leader and leader of the Afrikaner community, is born in the district of Calvinia,5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083666event Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,18 May 2012–
E-0083491event Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania.  He died on 6 Jan. 1995.18 May 2012✓
E-0083353event The SA general election is won by the United Party with 111 seats, followed by the ‘Herenigde Nasionale Party’  (Re-united Nat14 May 2012–
E-0083200event Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of adventure books (i.e. King Solomon’s Mines) who worked in SA for several years, dies in Lond11 May 2012✓
E-0083044event The SA general election is won by the United Party with 111 seats, followed by the ‘Herenigde Nasionale Party’  (Re-united Nat11 May 2012✓
E-0082868event Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou7 May 2012✓
E-0082603event Justice Sfiso Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban.   As a child he drew on sand walls.  He received formal art training at t3 May 2012✓
E-0082302event The Huguenot Church, designed by Louis Thibault and oldest church building in SA after the Groote Kerk in Cape Town, is consecr23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082234event Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082116event For the next month, until May 25, a comet known only as “The Great Comet of 1901’ is visible over most of SA.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081017event Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079817event The SA government seals off all borders with Transkei to prevent any further cross-border attacks from Transkei by the Pan-Afri19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069983event Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069954event Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069558event SA boxer Vic Toweel loses his world bantamweight title when he is knocked out by Australian Jimmy Carruthers in the first round11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070609event Laban Nkete (36), member of the SA marathon team that competed in the IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Canada in 2001, is5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070488event The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070362event The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070266event De Beers SA, the world’s largest producer of diamonds, agrees to pay $250m to settle four US class-action lawsuits that accused25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070198event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Kitchener succeeds Lord Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in SA and Lord Roberts succe25 Nov 2011✓

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