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E-0083163event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British prime minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, states that Britain’s successes in the South African ca11 May 2012✓
E-0083161event The district of Albert (Burgersdorp), submits a petition to parliament in which the use of Dutch, jointly with English, is requ11 May 2012✓
E-0083144event A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven. 11 May 2012✓
E-0083142event Mozambique rejects the findings of the Margo commission of inquiry into the air crash in which Mozambican leader Samora Machel11 May 2012✓
E-0083137event The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, tells Parliament that nearly 700 terrorists were arrested in 1977 an11 May 2012✓
E-0083134event A Bill prohibiting demonstrations near the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town is passed with the support of the opposition Unite11 May 2012–
E-0083124event Membathise Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana, Minister of Labour of the Republic of South Africa since July 1998, is born in Keiskamma11 May 2012✓
E-0083087event The leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is charged in the Pretoria Regional Court with disclosing secre11 May 2012✓
E-0083078event Plans for independence of the Gold Coast (becomes Ghana in March 1957) from Britain are approved by the Colonial Secretary.11 May 2012✓
E-0083065event The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei11 May 2012✓
E-0083049event The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta11 May 2012✓
E-0083036event An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the11 May 2012✓
E-0082902event The Venda National Assembly elects a new state president, Mr Frank Ravele, after the death of Chief Patrick Mphephu in April.7 May 2012✓
E-0082897event Talks (10 -12 May) start in Cape Town between Swaziland and South Africa concerning trade and regional security. South Africa i7 May 2012✓
E-0082890event Gert Oosthuizen, Deputy Minister of Sport and Recreation in the Republic of South Africa since 10 May 2004, is born.7 May 2012✓
E-0082864event Nelson Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly.7 May 2012✓
E-0082858event A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir7 May 2012✓
E-0082838event William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro7 May 2012✓
E-0082830event Miss Namibia, Michelle McLean, a six-foot-tall model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand, the first eve7 May 2012✓
E-0082727event The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency7 May 2012✓
E-0082670event Apla claims responsibility for the murder of four police officers at Dobsonville, Soweto, bringing police deaths in the year to3 May 2012✓
E-0082669event Addressing a joint sitting of two houses of the British Parliament, ANC president Nelson Mandela urges Britain to invest in Sou3 May 2012✓
E-0082640event In response to Pretoria’s failure to meet the 30 April deadline, 364 political prisoners throughout South Africa start an indef3 May 2012✓
E-0082636event Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe3 May 2012✓
E-0082630event PAC Central Committee announces in Dar es Salaam that its chairman, Potlako Leballo, is to retire due to health reasons.3 May 2012✓
E-0082508event Prime Minister Vorster announces that Robert Sobukwe has been taken to Robben Island, where he will be detained indefinitely in30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082498event William C. Oswell, White scout who saw the Victorian Falls for the first time with Livingstone, dies in Turnbridge Wells, Engla30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082470event 500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag30 Apr 2012–
E-0082392event 500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082335event The first  Thirstland Trek, exodus of Boer families through Northern Bechuanaland to Angola that started in 1874 under the lea23 Apr 2012✓

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