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E-0082787event Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr7 May 2012✓
E-0082761event The ships the ‘Walvis’ and the ‘Oliphant’, which were loaded too heavy to sail from the Netherlands with Jan van Riebeeck’s oth7 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-0082234event Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco23 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-0081480event In what is believed to be a first in Cape Town, lightning strikes a Brooklyn resident in her home.  The N1 freeway is closed t5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081479event Health activists address the R13-million shortfall faced by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. By lau5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081458event The Federal Council of the New National Party decides to disband the party at midnight on the evening of the final certificatio5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081184event At an informal meeting in Cape Town, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela agree to reschedule formal talks between the Go30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081092event The Union Jack is lowered and British occupation of Simonstown comes to an end after 143 years. South Africa takes formal posse30 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-0080999event N.C. Gey van Pittius founds the Republic of Goshen on land assigned to them by Machette of Kunwana, after Boer volunteers assis30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079822event Britain’s Queen mother, widow of King George VI and mother of his successor to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 101.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079817event The SA government seals off all borders with Transkei to prevent any further cross-border attacks from Transkei by the Pan-Afri19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079780event Chief Patrick Mphephu, Chief Minister of Venda, is to hold talks with Prime Minister John Vorster on the issue of homeland inde19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079706event UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar16 Mar 2012✓
E-0070157event The first report of giraffes in South Africa by a European is made by Jonas de la Guerre, whose expedition to Namaqualand finds25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069983event Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069959event Britain starts military withdrawal from Suez war zone and petrol is rationed because of fear that the Suez crisis may lead to f21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069549event Anna E. Bliss and Abbie P. Ferguson arrive in Cape Town by boat from New York to start the Huguenot College in Paarl, CC.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069544event Twelve children, aged 13-15, are trampled to death as panicked pupils flee what they think is a fire in their northern Nigerian11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070646event Angola’s government and its rebel foes agree to a cease-fire in their eighteen-year war. The final cease-fire agreement was onl5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070631event Colin Mark de Sousa, who donned a SADF uniform and gained entry into the premises of the Wits Command to make a surveillance of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070623event Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i5 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-0070522event At its first legal congress in four decades, the South African Communist Party (SACP) decide to appoint Mr. Chris Hani as its n5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070512event The conference of the ANC rejects the Bantu Authorities Act, which, it is stated, was intended to prevent the development of th5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070366event South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070362event The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071231event Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu14 Dec 2011✓

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