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E-0074676event Jonathan Ayliff resigns because of ill health as minister of colonial affairs from the cabinet of Thomas Upington, but plays an24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074614event UN General Assembly approves $416m for UN’s one-year plan to free Namibia from seventy-four years of South African rule.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0076171event Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, twists his right knee in a Champions League game against Real Madrid, barring him from playi5 Mar 2012✓
E-0092743event The Botswana police discover the bodies of eighteen people who had suffocated in the back of a truck driving from Zimbabwe to S28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092687event Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092434event Anglo-Boer War 2: A unit of seventy-five Cape Police retires from Taung, urging the local Blacks to remain peaceful. The magist27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092208event The United Arab Republic informs the United Nations that it has banned South African ships from entering UAR ports, and that, w27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092122event The Freedom Alliance is formed. It seeks to gain concession on federalism from the ANC and to displace the National Party.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092109event SWAPO claims it was not responsible for placing landmines in the Caprivi Strip and that the guerrillas were not operating from27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091854event A unique referendum in British Cameroon is carried out with support from UN. The Northern part of British Cameroon votes to joi24 Aug 2012✓
E-0090637event Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands from 1890 and throughout World Wars I (WWI) and II (WWII), abdicates in favour of her daug14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090484event Police seize documents and videos from the home of the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090449event Troops allied with the government of Congo capture the strategic port town of Matadi from rebel forces trying to oust President14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090439event About 600 students from five secondary schools march to Bontheuwel. On their way they are confronted by four riot squad vans. T14 Aug 2012–
E-0090309event Former commander of the Simon’s Town naval base Dieter Gerhard is released from prison where he has been serving a life sentenc10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091438event Wheelchair athlete Ernst van Dyk, cut off from a certain gold medal by Mexico’s Saul Mendoza in the 1 500m final Athens Pa23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091368event A seven-man delegation of Coloured leaders flies from Cape Town to Pretoria to meet the Prime Minister for discussions on the f23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091347event General Koos de la Rey is buried in Lichtenburg, Transvaal, in a very tense atmosphere.  From far and near veteran officers of23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091268event The notorious Foster gang under leadership of William Foster, who stole and raided from 1912 to 1914, commit suicide in Johanne23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090169event SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro10 Aug 2012✓
E-0092786event Olof Bergh, Swedish explorer at the Cape, returns to the Cape from his second journey of exploration, ordered by Governor Simon28 Aug 2012✓
E-0083976event At least four policemen are apparently arrested and questioned about a burglary last week from the safes of the SAPS serious an25 May 2012✓
E-0083472event President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem18 May 2012✓
E-0083351event Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a14 May 2012–
E-0083297event Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco for Latin America on a papyrus boat, Ra II, to prove his theories that ancient Egyptians14 May 2012✓
E-0083221event A Nigerian freighter with 3 500 Liberian war refugees is allowed to dock in Ghana after being turned away from African ports fo11 May 2012✓
E-0083042event Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a11 May 2012✓
E-0082911event Deputy President F.W. de Klerk announces that the National Party is to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 37 May 2012✓
E-0082866event Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o7 May 2012✓
E-0082590event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,3 May 2012✓

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