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E-0090385event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. De la Rey, satisfied that his goal has been accomplished and on hearing reports of the approach of a str14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091481event Anna (Sister Annie) Tempo, founder of ‘Nanny House’ for destitute girls on the streets of Cape Town, is born in Cape Town. Her23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091341event Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony from 1854-1861, with the exception of a few months when he was recalled, dies in L23 Aug 2012–
E-0091340event Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony from 1854-1861, with the exception of a few months when he was recalled, dies in L23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090123event Willem Adriaan (Wilhelm Adriaen) van der Stel, eldest son of Simon van der Stel who also became governor of the Cape, is born i10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090042event The first Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field is signe10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089964event An Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upholds a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal, who had been con10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090771event Mobutu Sese Seko (66), former president of Zaire, dies in exile in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly 3214 Aug 2012✓
E-0092789event The corner stone of the St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Somerset Road, Cape Town, is laid by the acting governor of the Cape28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084057event Second sale of land in Johannesburg takes place, on the site of the now-abandoned mining claims in the central city area. See:25 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-0084011event D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo25 May 2012–
E-0084010event D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo25 May 2012✓
E-0083977event The incidence of new HIV infections appears to have stabilised for the first time in the 25-year history of Aids, according to25 May 2012✓
E-0083910event Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 24 May in another source.25 May 2012✓
E-0082001event Kitch Christie (58), coach of the SA rugby team who won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, dies of cancer in a hospital in Pretoria.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081939event Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081821event The corner stone of the ‘Nieuwe Kerk’ of the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town is laid. The church has been demolished since.13 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-0083537event WWII: East Africa. Caught between a pincer movement of the 11th and 12th African Divisions, the Abyssinian town of Soddu is cap18 May 2012✓
E-0083430event Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 29 May in another source a18 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-0082747event Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says about 120 police officers died in the course of their duties in the previous year,7 May 2012✓
E-0082536event Sir John Barrow, author and explorer of the interior of SA, arrives at the Cape and has to start immediately to resolve boundar3 May 2012✓
E-0082346event The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, to which SA is a party, is signed in Genev23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081143event Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep in Namaqualand starts as Gen. Smuts demands the surrender of the town but is curtly reject30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081011event Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079835event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079824event Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, arrives at the Cape on board t19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079711event Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T16 Mar 2012✓

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