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E-0091910event The death toll in rioting and clashes with police has risen to over sixty. The Government took the leader of South Africa’s mos27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091841event Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Pixley kaIsaka Seme, Isaac Seme), barrister and president of the ANC from 1930 to 1936, is born at a miss24 Aug 2012✓
E-0090322event About 200 people drown when a north-western blows the Waterloo broadside on to the shore in Table Bay. Earlier on this day, the10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090294event Basil D’Oliveira, cricket player in England, is omitted from the MCC team, which is to tour SA, because he is not white.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090173event The 600-ton cargo ship The Duke of Northumberland, en route from Madras to London, is wrecked near Cape Agulhas, CC. No lives a10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091660event The Susan Crisp (198 tons) is wrecked and five crewmembers are missing near Plettenberg Bay. She was on her way to remove provi23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091614event An ocean ferry owned and operated by Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Senegalese23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091514event Jan van Riebeeck writes to Otto Jansz on Robben Island, enquiring about the number of sheep on the island and whether he needs23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091471event The sale of six state-owned provincial radio stations has realised R520 million, to be spend on reducing state debt, new infras23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091376event The ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party announce that they have held high-level talks in Durban to discuss ways of ending violenc23 Aug 2012–
E-0091328event Hendrik Swellengrebel, the only Cape governor to be born at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.  Swellendam is named after him and23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091312event A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se23 Aug 2012–
E-0091311event A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091258event South African house prices have been growing at the second fastest pace in the world over the last few years, according to The23 Aug 2012–
E-0090136event Talks between Egypt and Israel in an attempt to end disputes over the Gaza Strip fail. The talks were doomed after Israeli forc10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089680event The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V and his wife) arrive in Durban for a quick royal visit to N10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089673event About ten Zulu regiments attack the Voortrekkers at Veglaer, next to the Bushmans River, near the town that is now known as Est10 Aug 2012✓
E-0092820event The ANC announces that it is postponing its national conference, set for 15 December 1990, until June 1991, due to the slow pac28 Aug 2012–
E-0092809event In the United Nations Security Council ‘Pik’ Botha says that South Africa will do everything in its power to move away from dis28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084064event WWII: According to an entry in the squadron’s diary, 28 Squadron of the SA Air Force is formed as a transport squadron at the S25 May 2012✓
E-0084054event The name of Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, is linked to Dr James Barry (who performed the first caesarean in the25 May 2012✓
E-0082053event James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081763event A White farmer, Davis Stevens, is shot dead in Zimbabwe by squatters occupying his land. He is the first White farmer to be kil13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083677event Minister of Justice, C.R. Swart, serves two notices on Solly Sachs, the first ordering him to resign as an official of the Garm18 May 2012✓
E-0083648event After the State President assents to the Transkei Flag Bill, the new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is h18 May 2012✓
E-0083644event WWII:  The 1st SA Infantry Brigade is called up for continuous training, to be followed by other units, including the SA Artil18 May 2012✓
E-0083252event Archaeologists discover the largest tomb ever in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It is believed to be the resting place for the14 May 2012–
E-0083184event Winnie Mandela is found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accus11 May 2012✓
E-0083129event Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv11 May 2012✓
E-0082613event Two Libyan men plead not guilty to charges that they were involved in the Lockerbie bombing of Panama flight 103 in 1988. The c3 May 2012✓

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