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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-0083550event Derek Louw and Franco Fruscurd, editor and cartoonist of the Wits Student, are arrested and detained overnight on charges of de18 May 2012✓
E-0083461event The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university18 May 2012✓
E-0083422event The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o18 May 2012✓
E-0083398event Dr Carel de Wet, grandson of Gen. C.R. de Wet, former minister of health and diplomat, is born in Memel, OFS.18 May 2012✓
E-0083255event Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond14 May 2012✓
E-0083209event Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou11 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-0083203event Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co11 May 2012–
E-0083195event For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men11 May 2012✓
E-0083164event Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by rebel tribesm11 May 2012✓
E-0083112event Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a11 May 2012✓
E-0082874event Alwyn Petrus Burger, founder of the charity service of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal, is born in Montagu, Cape Provinc7 May 2012✓
E-0082856event A Second Defence Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th7 May 2012✓
E-0082835event Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba7 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 2012✓
E-0082639event President F. W. de Klerk announces plans to revise some provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1982. He also offers to incl3 May 2012✓
E-0082600event Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po3 May 2012✓
E-0082496event N.C. (Klasie) Havenga, private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog and minister of finance in Dr. Malan’s cabinet, is born in Faur30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082455event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 30 Apr 2012–
E-0082381event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082320event Business Day reports that Dr Simon Brand, chief executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, has warned that the expen23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082317event The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, orders the Minister of Law and Order, Le Grange, to investigate the activities of the Afrikaner23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082300event Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082190event General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the23 Apr 2012–
E-0082165event General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082148event Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081520event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081517event Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081505event Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He is officially ina5 Apr 2012✓

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