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E-0083911event The Rev. Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen, founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, is born in Cape Town.25 May 2012✓
E-0083909event Nineteen South African passport holders are deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo for their alleged involvement in a c25 May 2012✓
E-0083888event International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn (57) dies in a Cape Town hospital of complications after surgery. He served25 May 2012✓
E-0083864event Dr Cedric Namedi Phatudi, chief minister of Lebowa (1973), is born in the district of Pietersburg (now Polokwane).25 May 2012✓
E-0083854event A week after sweeping into the city, President Laurent Kabila bans political activity and demonstrations in Kinshasa, the DRC c25 May 2012✓
E-0082040event A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082024event The Director of Education in the Transvaal, Dr John Adamson, opens the Potchefstroom Teachers’ College with 131 students.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081988event The prime minister announces a new sport policy in which he distinguishes between multiracial sport and multinational sport. Mu23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081772event Cornelis Christiaan Nepgen, Dutch Reformed missionary in the Transkei, retires after thirty-five years of service.  He wrote ‘13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081761event The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081757event The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081726event Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081718event Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081705event Colin Wells Eglin, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, 1971-78, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081670event Warring factions in Liberia negotiate a cease-fire with help from visiting West African politicians as nearly 1 500 terrified f5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081649event The Rev. Nomthandazo Purity Malinga, bishop of The Methodist Church of Southern Africa, is born in Ixopo, Natal.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081645event Sir Donald Currie, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cup sporting trophy, dies in Sidmouth, Devon, England.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081638event Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt reaches Lourenço Marques (Maputo) after setting out from the Zoutpansberg in August of the5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081630event Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081615event Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081609event J.H. Conradie, Administrator of the Cape Province, lays the corner stone of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.5 Apr 2012–
E-0081605event Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener5 Apr 2012–
E-0081602event Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081557event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately5 Apr 2012–
E-0081546event Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083650event A referendum in the Cameroons approves the country’s change from a federation into a unitary state, the United Republic of Came18 May 2012✓
E-0083427event Human rights organisation Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 118 May 2012✓
E-0083402event Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho18 May 2012✓
E-0083342event The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.14 May 2012–
E-0083339event The Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh is held by British forces as involvement in civil war increases.14 May 2012✓

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