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E-0083916event Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn, too weak to leave his tent, resigns because of poor health and Gen. C.R. de Wet is appointe25 May 2012✓
E-0083915event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Klipriviersberg or Doornkop starts.25 May 2012✓
E-0083914event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Louis Botha visits Johannesburg two days before British occupation and asks the residents not to resist25 May 2012✓
E-0083913event Sandile, Xhosa chief born in the Ciskei in 1820, is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Capt. J. Lonsdal25 May 2012✓
E-0083912event Humphrey Davy, English inventor of the safety lamp for miners, dies.25 May 2012✓
E-0083911event The Rev. Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen, founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, is born in Cape Town.25 May 2012✓
E-0083910event Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 24 May in another source.25 May 2012✓
E-0083909event Nineteen South African passport holders are deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo for their alleged involvement in a c25 May 2012✓
E-0083908event An outbreak of the Ebola virus kills 153 people in Zaire.25 May 2012✓
E-0083907event Eritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.25 May 2012✓
E-0083906event Ethiopians People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose se25 May 2012✓
E-0083905event Joyce Modimoeng is killed and her husband, David (MAWU member) injured, by a bomb thrown into their house.25 May 2012✓
E-0083904event Two limpet mines explode at the SADF Transvaal Medical Command, Hillbrow, Johannesburg. The mines are seen by a member of the S25 May 2012✓
E-0083903event Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of SA a25 May 2012✓
E-0083902event The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River25 May 2012✓
E-0083901event At its inaugural Congress in Pretoria, the South African Party commits itself to a federal or confederal solution to the countr25 May 2012✓
E-0083900event WWII: North Africa. Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt: Operation ‘Ven25 May 2012✓
E-0083899event WWII: North Africa. Max Schmeling, German ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, is captured whilst trying to flee British troop25 May 2012✓
E-0083898event WWII: General Jan Smuts, premier of SA, becomes a field marshal of the British army.25 May 2012✓
E-0083897event A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during25 May 2012✓
E-0083896event S.J. du Toit, champion for Afrikaans, dies in Paarl.25 May 2012✓
E-0083895event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on25 May 2012✓
E-0083894event Anglo-Boer War 2: Zulu King Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics. Col. Bottomley wa25 May 2012✓
E-0083893event Anglo-Boer War 2: The annexation of the Orange Free State is announced by Lord Roberts, and back-dated to coincide with the Que25 May 2012✓
E-0083892event John Bird, government official and historian, dies in Pietermaritzburg.25 May 2012✓
E-0083891event The Agnes (94 tons) and the Christina (196 tons), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay.25 May 2012✓
E-0083890event Daniël Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat, Cape Colony.25 May 2012✓
E-0083889event National Day of Ethiopia.25 May 2012✓
E-0083888event International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn (57) dies in a Cape Town hospital of complications after surgery. He served25 May 2012✓
E-0083887event The editor-in-chief of TV News, Joe Thloloe, resigns because of differences with Zwelakhe Sisulu, executive group head of the S25 May 2012✓

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