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E-0083623event Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru18 May 2012✓
E-0083609event The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.18 May 2012–
E-0083608event The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.18 May 2012✓
E-0083592event General Henri Lorillot is sent by the French premier, Pierre Pfimlim, to negotiate with General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-C18 May 2012–
E-0083591event General Henri Lorillot is sent by the French premier, Pierre Pfimlim, to negotiate with General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-C18 May 2012✓
E-0083534event Bambata Rebellion: A message is received from Sigananda informing Col McKenzie that he wishes to surrender in Nkandla, as he wa18 May 2012✓
E-0083507event The US expels the South African military attaché in response to raids by South African forces into Botswana, Zambia, and18 May 2012✓
E-0083502event The Fort Klapperkop military museum, Pretoria, mainly illustrating the period from the Great Trek to 1902, is opened by Preside18 May 2012✓
E-0083494event India asks its High Commissioner in South Africa, Ramrao Madhavrao Deshmukh, to return for consultations. He sails for India th18 May 2012✓
E-0083489event British soldiers are called out in Alexandria to restore order after riots by nationalists. The riots follow the departure of a18 May 2012✓
E-0083486event Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops arrive at the Renoster River only to find that the Boers have destroyed the bridge.18 May 2012✓
E-0083474event Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit18 May 2012✓
E-0083444event Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Progressive Party in South Africa announces his formal opposition to the South African18 May 2012✓
E-0083413event The secretary of the United Democratic Front in the Border, Makhenkesi Stofile, is sentenced to an effective eleven years’ impr18 May 2012✓
E-0083396event Sir Christopher Joseph Quinton Brand, aviation pioneer who completed the first flight from London to Cape Town with Sir Pierre18 May 2012✓
E-0083363event It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.14 May 2012–
E-0083358event The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta14 May 2012–
E-0083340event The United Nations conference on poverty announces the launch of the World Trade University, a new university to give the world14 May 2012✓
E-0083274event Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi14 May 2012✓
E-0083246event 240 Mobil workers in the Transvaal strike in protest against Mobil’s alleged failure to negotiate with them over intended disin14 May 2012✓
E-0083216event The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent11 May 2012✓
E-0083189event Thousands of Liberian war refugees, many ill after a week at sea, are refused admission to the Ghanaian port of Takoradi.11 May 2012✓
E-0083174event The Official Secrets Act Amendment Bill is passed. It is designed to prevent the publication of information, which would hamper11 May 2012✓
E-0083161event The district of Albert (Burgersdorp), submits a petition to parliament in which the use of Dutch, jointly with English, is requ11 May 2012✓
E-0083153event An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com11 May 2012✓
E-0083144event A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven. 11 May 2012✓
E-0083143event KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi says he will have nothing to do with a dispensation that does not include Black Sou11 May 2012✓
E-0083054event It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.11 May 2012✓
E-0083049event The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta11 May 2012✓
E-0082912event By this deadline for the receipt of applications for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission almost 8,000 applicatio7 May 2012✓

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