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E-0082563event Nine people are killed at Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) during a stampede to attend a mass given by Pope J3 May 2012✓
E-0082562event Police arrest the Azanian People’s Organisation’s (AZAPO) two principal leaders, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa in Soweto.3 May 2012–
E-0082561event Police arrest the Azanian People’s Organisation’s (AZAPO) two principal leaders, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa in Soweto.3 May 2012✓
E-0082559event The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.3 May 2012✓
E-0082558event The Transkei Legislative Assembly requests independence for the Transkei, subject to the inclusion of additional White areas.3 May 2012–
E-0082557event The Transkei Legislative Assembly requests independence for the Transkei, subject to the inclusion of additional White areas.3 May 2012✓
E-0082556event The Foreign Minister announces that South Africa and Lesotho have decided to establish reciprocal consular representation.3 May 2012✓
E-0082555event The court finds Abram Fischer guilty on all fifteen counts of the indictment, including alleged sabotage, Communist Party membe3 May 2012–
E-0082554event The court finds Abram Fischer guilty on all fifteen counts of the indictment, including alleged sabotage, Communist Party membe3 May 2012✓
E-0082553event Units of the SADF are now being equipped with a rifle made completely in South Africa. It is the R1-7.62 mm rifle, developed fr3 May 2012✓
E-0082552event The Transkeian Territory Authority approves the draft Constitution as a whole, after considerable controversy mainly concerning3 May 2012–
E-0082551event The Transkeian Territory Authority approves the draft Constitution as a whole, after considerable controversy mainly concerning3 May 2012✓
E-0082550event Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for incitement of Africans3 May 2012✓
E-0082549event Hendrik Adolph Mulder (Willem Hessels), SA poet and leading Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Grahamstown.3 May 2012–
E-0082548event Hendrik Adolph Mulder (Willem Hessels), SA poet and leading Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Grahamstown.3 May 2012✓
E-0082547event British troops land in Madagascar.3 May 2012✓
E-0082546event The Natal Indian Organisation (NIO) is formed by "moderate" Indians.3 May 2012✓
E-0082545event Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic, political activist and ‘listed’ communist, is born in Johannesburg.3 May 2012–
E-0082544event Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic, political activist and ‘listed’ communist, is born in Johannesburg.3 May 2012✓
E-0082543event Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.3 May 2012✓
E-0082542event Hendrik Susan, SA orchestra leader and violist, is born.3 May 2012✓
E-0082541event General Smuts, on his way to the national delegation at Vereeniging to start peace negotiations, meets with General Lord Kitche3 May 2012✓
E-0082540event The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshesh at Wittebergen, near Winburg, after the first Basuto war.3 May 2012✓
E-0082539event Natal is proclaimed a British colony. This date is given as 12 May in another source.3 May 2012✓
E-0082538event Gov. George Napier wants to cut off the Voortrekkers from the harbour in Port Natal and sends Capt. Smith with 125 men by land3 May 2012✓
E-0082537event John Hanning Speke, British explorer who discovered the origin of the Nile and the first European to see Lake Victoria, is born3 May 2012✓
E-0082536event Sir John Barrow, author and explorer of the interior of SA, arrives at the Cape and has to start immediately to resolve boundar3 May 2012✓
E-0082534event Life magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk2 May 2012✓
E-0082533event South African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly2 May 2012✓
E-0082532event Miss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand2 May 2012✓

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