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E-0084086event The US government orders its diplomats around the world to boycott South African Republic Day functions.25 May 2012✓
E-0083966event Following fierce opposition to the Advocate General’s Bill, the government refers it to a Parliamentary Select Committee.25 May 2012✓
E-0083935event Laurent Kabila is consecrated as new president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire).25 May 2012✓
E-0083861event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal River and occupies the town of Vereeniging.25 May 2012✓
E-0083826event Seven ships are wrecked, with the loss of ten lives, at the Buffalo River, East London.25 May 2012✓
E-0081879event Commissioner Van Overbeek buys the area between Hout Bay and Saldana Bay from the Khoi-Khoi.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081839event Two people are killed in a bomb explosion in the Wild Coast Sun Casino in the Transkei.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081816event The South African National Government Cabinet receives a comprehensive briefing on the implementation of government policy on H13 Apr 2012–
E-0081785event The first two apples are picked in the Company’s Garden. They are small and rather tart.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083669event Ulrich Gerhard Lauts, founder of the pro-Boer association in the Netherlands, is born in Amsterdam.18 May 2012✓
E-0083664event The home game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Zambia ends in a tie with 1-1.18 May 2012✓
E-0083640event Halley’s comet reaches the closest point to the earth since 1837, only 22 million km off.18 May 2012✓
E-0083515event The governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy wins the election in Lesotho with Pakalitha Mosisili as premier.18 May 2012✓
E-0083454event United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.18 May 2012✓
E-0083361event Following the results obtained in the general election held in April, a new cabinet is sworn in.14 May 2012–
E-0083295event The Publications and Entertainments Amendment Bill gives the Publications Control Board powers to prohibit subsequent editions14 May 2012✓
E-0083261event The Free Burghers sign a petition asking Jan van Riebeeck to act against the ‘Kaapmans’ (Khoi-Khoi). 14 May 2012✓
E-0083162event Paulus Johannes Hartogh, the first baby to be born on the Witwatersrand, is born in Ferreiraskamp.11 May 2012✓
E-0083146event The commission of enquiry into the Helderberg air disaster under judge Cecil Margo, reports its findings.11 May 2012✓
E-0083070event Gen. Louis Botha lays the corner stone of the Dutch Reformed church in Bosman street, Pretoria.11 May 2012✓
E-0083052event Following the results obtained in the general election held in April, a new cabinet is sworn in.11 May 2012✓
R-0082932archive The (Re-)Constitution of the South African Communist Party as an Underground Organisation by Raymond Suttner8 May 2012–
E-0082906event SA signs the following international agreements: agreement concerning the establishment of diplomatic relations with Sao Tome &7 May 2012✓
E-0082780event Muhammad Siyad Barre, the Chairman Supreme Revolutionary Council (a military junta) orders the nationalisation of all foreign b7 May 2012✓
E-0082762event Jan van Riebeeck and his family leave the Cape for Batavia on board of the ‘Mars’.7 May 2012✓
E-0082476event Captain Valentine Strasser announces the overthrow of Momoh’s APC government.   Most Sierra Leoneans welcome the coup.30 Apr 2012–
E-0082397event Captain Valentine Strasser announces the overthrow of Momoh’s APC government.   Most Sierra Leoneans welcome the coup.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082184event Building starts on the Suez Canal under the engineer and designer Ferdinand de Lisseps (or Lesseps).23 Apr 2012–
E-0082159event Building starts on the Suez Canal under the engineer and designer Ferdinand de Lisseps (or Lesseps).23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081428event Egypt objects to calls to move the headquarters of the Arab League from Cairo to Tunis.5 Apr 2012✓

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