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E-0082061event Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland arrives from the Netherlands in Simonstown as solicitor-general.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082028event A group of academics founds the ‘Afrikaans-Duitse Kultuurunie’ (Afrikaans-Deutsche Kultur-Gemeinschaft) in Pretoria.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082007event Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland arrives from the Netherlands in Simonstown as solicitor-general.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081975event Abraham Jonker, Afrikaans novelist, is born in the district of Boshof, Orange Free State.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081827event Destour (nationalist movement) Party’s independence demands are announced by Habib Ali Bourguiba in Tunisia.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083688event South African troops carry out raids in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, killing three people.18 May 2012✓
E-0083584event Die Landbouweekblad is published for the first time by Nasionale Pers in Cape Town.18 May 2012✓
E-0083470event Eritrea declares independence from Ethiopia following a referendum in April, ending a thirty-year civil war.18 May 2012✓
E-0083431event The Dutch ships Oosterland and Waddingsveen are wrecked during a winter gale in Table Bay.18 May 2012✓
E-0083394event Johan Arnold Smellekamp (54), Free State member of parliament and landdros in Bloemfontein, dies.18 May 2012✓
E-0083359event Harm Oost (87), journalist, author, politician and champion for Afrikaans dies in Garsfontein, Pretoria.14 May 2012–
E-0083346event Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town.14 May 2012–
E-0083276event Betsie Verwoerd (Elizabeth Schoombie), wife of Dr Verwoerd, is born in Middelburg, Cape Colony.14 May 2012✓
E-0083201event Riots disrupt the general election in Cairo. Twenty-three die and 180 are injured.11 May 2012✓
E-0083190event Ryk Tulbach, governor of the Cape from 1751, is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.11 May 2012✓
E-0083122event WWII: Battle of North Africa ends with German surrender of Cap Bon in Tunisia.11 May 2012✓
E-0083114event Sam Shaffishuna Nujoma, first president of Namibia, is born in Ongandjera, South West Africa.11 May 2012✓
E-0083050event Harm Oost (87), journalist, author, politician and champion for Afrikaans dies in Garsfontein, Pretoria.11 May 2012✓
E-0083037event Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town.11 May 2012✓
R-0082930archive Article in the Indian Opinon by Jordaan K Ngubane on James Moroka, 28 November 19528 May 2012–
E-0082885event Life magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk.  7 May 2012✓
E-0082726event Margaret Rheeder, found guilty of poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman, is hung in Pretoria.7 May 2012✓
E-0082722event Elize Botha, first wife of former president P.W. Botha, is born in Senekal, OFS.7 May 2012✓
E-0082644event France’s Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena. (BBC history)3 May 2012–
E-0082620event Egyptian nationalists gain power in the first elections since Farouk succeeded to the throne.3 May 2012✓
E-0082589event Petrus Johannes Lemmer, composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal.3 May 2012✓
E-0082545event Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic, political activist and ‘listed’ communist, is born in Johannesburg.3 May 2012–
E-0082544event Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic, political activist and ‘listed’ communist, is born in Johannesburg.3 May 2012✓
E-0082339event Election for the first legislative assembly under responsible government is held in Southern Rhodesia. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082333event Maria Wilman, geologist and botanist of international repute, is born in Beaufort West, CC.23 Apr 2012✓

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