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E-0082595event The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA.   They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.3 May 2012✓
E-0082594event The second census of the Union of South Africa takes place.3 May 2012✓
E-0082593event Turkey cedes the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.3 May 2012✓
E-0082592event Bambata Rebellion: The Dundee-based troops leave the town and proceed to Nkandla.3 May 2012✓
E-0082591event Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran3 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✓
E-0082589event Petrus Johannes Lemmer, composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal.3 May 2012✓
E-0082588event South Zambesia and North Zambesia (Zambia) are united as Rhodesia Protectorate.3 May 2012✓
E-0082587event Prof. François Ernst Johannes Malherbe, lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and literary critic, is born in the distric3 May 2012✓
E-0082586event In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B3 May 2012✓
E-0082585event The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the3 May 2012✓
E-0082584event Voortrekker leader Piet Retief is baptised in Drakenstein, Western Cape. 3 May 2012✓
E-0082583event World Press Freedom Day.3 May 2012✓
E-0082581event Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that3 May 2012✓
E-0082580event An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill3 May 2012–
E-0082579event The MEC of Gauteng unveils a commemorative stone at the site of the White and Black concentration camps at Heidelberg.3 May 2012–
E-0082578event The MEC of Gauteng unveils a commemorative stone at the site of the White and Black concentration camps at Heidelberg.3 May 2012✓
E-0082577event Worsie Visser (35), popular SA singer, is killed instantly when his plane crashes at Saldanha, West Coast.3 May 2012✓
E-0082576event The ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging) withdraws its special award to Madeleine van Biljon, because she admitted to no3 May 2012–
E-0082575event The ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging) withdraws its special award to Madeleine van Biljon, because she admitted to no3 May 2012✓
E-0082574event Violence in KwaZulu-Natal spills over into the streets of central Durban and running gun battles ensue.3 May 2012✓
E-0082573event Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.3 May 2012–
E-0082572event Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.3 May 2012✓
E-0082571event In a statement congratulating ANC President Nelson Mandela on his election victory, the United Nations Educational Scientific a3 May 2012✓
E-0082570event At their annual meeting in Sweden, Nordic development ministers decided to continue support to the ANC.3 May 2012–
E-0082569event At their annual meeting in Sweden, Nordic development ministers decided to continue support to the ANC.3 May 2012✓
E-0082568event At the end of their talks, the ANC and the South African Government issue a joint statement, entitled "the Groote Schuur M3 May 2012✓
E-0082567event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012–
E-0082566event Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan3 May 2012✓
E-0082565event Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.3 May 2012✓

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