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E-0081642event Sir Robert Nelson Kotzé, mining engineer who did much to promote safety in mines and who became vice-chancellor of the U5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081601event Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai5 Apr 2012–
E-0083692event Kamuzu Banda of Malawi, Africa’s longest ruling dictator with thirty years at the helm, concedes defeat to Bakili Muluzi in the18 May 2012✓
E-0083682event The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.18 May 2012✓
E-0083670event About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t18 May 2012✓
E-0083663event Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan18 May 2012✓
E-0083634event The expedition under August F. Beutler, which left the Cape at the end of February, reaches Boesmans River according to his jou18 May 2012✓
E-0083622event Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are already infected with th18 May 2012✓
E-0083564event Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca18 May 2012–
E-0083563event Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca18 May 2012✓
E-0083557event In a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights in the constitution18 May 2012✓
E-0083480event According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the18 May 2012✓
E-0083479event Troops loyal to Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, break up protests in Kinshasa just a week after his forces enter the cap18 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-0083456event Dr Victorio Carpio of the Philippines falls ill after his visit, together with Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, to the Transkei.18 May 2012✓
E-0083412event Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.18 May 2012✓
E-0083392event In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con18 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-0083281event Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West14 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-0083215event Petrus Vusi Mahlangu of Vlaklaagte No. 2 disappears after being shot at a taxi rank on his way to a meeting at Chief Mabogo’s k11 May 2012✓
E-0083207event The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi11 May 2012✓
E-0083102event Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born. Nurses in SA undertake to honour the oath of Florence Nighting11 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-0082908event The Australian Government announces that it would give an extra 8 million Australian Dollars in aid to South Africa over the ne7 May 2012–
E-0082881event Noria Mabasa (also Mabaso), SA artist, is born in Tshigalo, Ramukhumba, Venda.   She moved to White City in Soweto but return7 May 2012✓
E-0082827event The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asks Pretoria to clarify its position on amnesty, as well as on any o7 May 2012–
E-0082804event Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania.  His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined7 May 2012✓
E-0082792event SA rugby is plunged into a crisis because Louis Luyt refuses to resign as president of the South African Rugby Football Union.7 May 2012✓
E-0082734event The government announces that its aim is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible.7 May 2012✓

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