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E-0083606event Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af18 May 2012✓
E-0083592event General Henri Lorillot is sent by the French premier, Pierre Pfimlim, to negotiate with General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-C18 May 2012–
E-0083591event General Henri Lorillot is sent by the French premier, Pierre Pfimlim, to negotiate with General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-C18 May 2012✓
E-0083547event Minister of Defence Jim Fouché announces that R12m. has been spent on the defence radar screen in the Transvaal.18 May 2012–
E-0083546event Minister of Defence Jim Fouché announces that R12m. has been spent on the defence radar screen in the Transvaal.18 May 2012✓
E-0083507event The US expels the South African military attaché in response to raids by South African forces into Botswana, Zambia, and18 May 2012✓
E-0083489event British soldiers are called out in Alexandria to restore order after riots by nationalists. The riots follow the departure of a18 May 2012✓
E-0083488event The Seier of Norway is wrecked near Buffelsbaai, Western Cape, after having struck a rock in the vicinity of Walker Bay.18 May 2012✓
E-0083474event Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit18 May 2012✓
E-0083473event President Nelson Mandela, in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament, announces that South Africa will subscribe to the U18 May 2012✓
E-0083462event Pupils reject a call by the Orlando Diepkloof School Board to return to school. The strike spreads to Pimville Higher Primary S18 May 2012✓
E-0083452event Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs addresses 15 000 people on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organise18 May 2012✓
E-0083444event Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Progressive Party in South Africa announces his formal opposition to the South African18 May 2012✓
E-0083421event In an interview with the Financial Times (London), President F.W. de Klerk insists that power sharing between the country’s mai18 May 2012✓
E-0083375event The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei14 May 2012–
E-0083374event The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei14 May 2012–
E-0083363event It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.14 May 2012–
E-0083358event The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta14 May 2012–
E-0083317event Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S14 May 2012✓
E-0083300event Pupils at Phefeni Secondary School start boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans in education. The unrest sp14 May 2012✓
E-0083296event The Minister of Justice banns all protest meetings in the centre of Cape Town, following student protests. Several arrests are14 May 2012✓
E-0083285event Belgian authority in the Congo has almost completely disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country.14 May 2012✓
E-0083267event Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, president of the ZAR for seven months, is born in the Uitenhage district, Eastern Cape.14 May 2012✓
E-0083239event WWII:Operation ‘Brevity’. British forces regain Halfaya Pass and capture the towns of Sollum and Capuzzo on the Egypt–Libya b14 May 2012✓
E-0083230event The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C14 May 2012✓
E-0083211event Prime Minister Vorster gives the first official confirmation of his two-day meeting with President Houphouet-Boigny in the Ivor11 May 2012✓
E-0083188event As a result of the NP’s withdrawal President Mandela carries out a Cabinet reshuffle replacing all the NP ministers with ANC ap11 May 2012✓
E-0083178event S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N11 May 2012✓
E-0083174event The Official Secrets Act Amendment Bill is passed. It is designed to prevent the publication of information, which would hamper11 May 2012✓
E-0083168event WWII: The Italian commander-in-chief in Tunisia surrenders a day after his German counterpart, with the Allies holding some 25011 May 2012✓

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