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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-0081894event As voting starts in Algeria, at least eight people are killed and twenty kidnapped. There are fears that this may slow down the13 Apr 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-0083629event The UN Security Council declares the Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo18 May 2012✓
E-0083579event Anglo-Boer War 2: The proposed peace proposals agreed on by a commission of five, Botha, De la Rey, De Wet and Hertzog, with Ki18 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-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-0082591event Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran3 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-0082231event Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082107event 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-0081402event João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind.  The stone is now kept in the South African M5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081159event Table Mountain is sighted at 2.30 p.m. by a crewmember of the Drommedaris, the ship on which Jan van Riebeeck and his company w30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081114event George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081021event An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the30 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-0079759event The death toll after an outbreak of a deadly Ebola-like disease in Angola climbs to 122. The country turns to civilians and the19 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✓
E-0070118event At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069952event Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, is born in Somer21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069671event The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged its alliance partner, the ANC, to clarify its stance on political and human rights ab11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070499event Bartholomew Dias anchors for a few days at the present day Walvis Bay, and calls it Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceiçao. He was5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070332event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, is born on Robben Island, where her fath25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070194event The British land a major force on l’Ile de France and capture the island from the French. They revert to the name Mauritius.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071174event Sir George Cathcart, governor and commander-in-chief at the Cape (31 March 1852-26 May 1854), is defeated when he attack Moshes14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070908event Three SA farmers from the Eastern Cape, who have crossed the border to Lesotho to search for stolen cattle, are shot and killed9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070906event The first group of 120 exiles returning to South Africa under the agreement reached in August by UNHCR and the South African au9 Dec 2011–

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