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E-0089754event The Springboks beat the All Blacks in the Vodacom Tri-Nations match 40-26 at a packed Ellis Park, perhaps inspired by the atten10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089680event The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V and his wife) arrive in Durban for a quick royal visit to N10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090944event The UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions against Libya that had been in place for eleven years as a response to the 198814 Aug 2012✓
E-0090849event Dr. Verwoerd is buried in Hero’s Acre, Pretoria. A crowd of some 250,000 people watches the mile-long cortege on its three-mile14 Aug 2012✓
E-0092828event The Springbok rugby team beats England 44-21 on the Stade de France, Paris, in the World Cup quarter-final match, with Jannie d28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092789event The corner stone of the St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Somerset Road, Cape Town, is laid by the acting governor of the Cape28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084054event The name of Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, is linked to Dr James Barry (who performed the first caesarean in the25 May 2012✓
E-0083977event The incidence of new HIV infections appears to have stabilised for the first time in the 25-year history of Aids, according to25 May 2012✓
E-0083910event Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 24 May in another source.25 May 2012✓
E-0082053event 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-0081994event Mr Nelson Mandela visits his family home at Qunu, 30km from Umtata and addresses a rally of 50 000 people in Umtata, sharing a23 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-0081821event The corner stone of the ‘Nieuwe Kerk’ of the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town is laid. The church has been demolished since.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081763event A White farmer, Davis Stevens, is shot dead in Zimbabwe by squatters occupying his land. He is the first White farmer to be kil13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083430event Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 29 May in another source a18 May 2012✓
E-0083403event Heads of thirty or thirty-two African states sign the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa on Afri18 May 2012✓
E-0083377event Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train14 May 2012–
E-0083376event Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train14 May 2012–
E-0083252event Archaeologists discover the largest tomb ever in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It is believed to be the resting place for the14 May 2012–
E-0083202event Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. Arab Legion of Trans-Jordan invades Pa11 May 2012✓
E-0083193event The Fingo (Mfengu) leaders gather at Peddie in the presence of the Rev. John Ayliff to take the ‘Fingo Oath’, namely: To obey G11 May 2012✓
E-0083129event Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv11 May 2012✓
E-0083066event Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train11 May 2012✓
E-0082519event A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082341event The Jonker diamond, fourth largest stone on record, is cut in three after an intensive study of three months.  It was found by23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082244event The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082118event Security forces round up more than 10,000 men in the biggest anti-Mau Mau operation since the state of emergency was declared i23 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-0081192event Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988.30 Mar 2012✓

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