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E-0082813event Following the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and over a thousand Mau Mau suspects the previous month, the Mau Mau carry out their bigg7 May 2012✓
E-0082785event Twenty-three of the twenty-six parties involved in the Multi-Party Talks at the World Trade Centre, adopt a Declaration of Inte7 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-0082490event Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting governor of the Cape who supervised the arrival and settling of the British Settlers and who fou30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082439event Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe30 Apr 2012–
E-0082365event Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082359event First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 223 Apr 2012✓
E-0082307event The League of Nations is established, with Gen. Jan Smuts and Prime Minister Louis Botha as the two representatives of the Unio23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082125event Under an amendment to the Defence Act the definition of superior officer is changed with the effect that White and Black member23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081500event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081218event In the Natal Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg, at the end of the longest trial of its kind in South Africa, thirteen defendant30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081068event Cornelis de Houtman leaves the Netherlands for the Cape with four ships in search of a sea route to the East Indies. Muller: V30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079851event The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069653event A SA woman, Olivia Forsyth, allegedly a spy for the SA government against the ANC, who has been holed up in the British Embassy11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069563event The trial of twelve members of the banned ANC in Pietermaritzburg ends with the death sentence for one defendant and a total of11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070629event Dr Chris Barnard performs the first heart transplant in the world on Louis Washkansky, who survived until the 21st of December5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070593event Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime Minister announces res5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070557event The United States withdraws the last of three C-130 transport planes sent to Congo in July to help the Kinshasa government airl5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070535event Prof. Russel Botman is appointed as rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He is the first theologian and also the first mem5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070518event The New Nation reports that Captain M. Hlela, state witness in the trial of six Ciskei police officers for the murder of Eric M5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070488event The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070328event The Battle of Umzimtsani takes place during the Ninth Border War. Seventy men of the Prince Alfred’s Guard unit are attacked by25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070326event The Battle of Tugela (also Battle of Ndondakusuka) takes place in the war between Cetewayo, eldest son of the Zulu chief Mpande25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070250event The search for survivors from the Helderberg SAA 747 crash into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius is called off. No survivors have25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071222event A Black candidate, Haile Mphushu, qualifies as mine manager for the first time in South Africa, after the repeal of the law se14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071210event The International Court of Justice at The Hague rules, by the narrow majority of eight votes to seven, that it has jurisdiction14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071162event Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, whose death is annually commemorated by the ANC and the SACP on14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071143event During the night of 18-19 December, four explosions occur at the Koeberg nuclear power station for which the ANC claims respons14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070833event Kenyan Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She is the first African woman to receive the prize. Prof. Maath9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073785event Elections for the Coloured and Indian Parliament under the new Constitution, to be held on 22 August 1984, are announced by the31 Jan 2012✓

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