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E-0084041event Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc25 May 2012✓
E-0083913event Sandile, Xhosa chief born in the Ciskei in 1820, is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Capt. J. Lonsdal25 May 2012✓
E-0083902event The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River25 May 2012✓
E-0083830event Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the25 May 2012✓
E-0081973event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, tells the House of Commons that every effort is being made23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081851event At the celebrations of twenty-five years of independence of Zimbabwe, Pres. Mugabe, who has led his country for the past twenty13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081830event In return for the release of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) agrees to take part in negotiations for go13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081814event President Mandela, present in his capacity as chief of the Temba clan, rather than Head of State, inaugurates the Council of Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081794event General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally has the Germans on the ru13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081764event Kenyans dominate the 106th Boston Marathon, winning both men’s and women’s titles and capturing the four top spots and six of t13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081643event Dr Abraham Johannes van der Merwe, SA church leader and leader of the Afrikaner community, is born in the district of Calvinia,5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081626event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012–
E-0081603event Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, a chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele born c. 1840, dies and is buried at Wallmannstal, north of5 Apr 2012–
E-0081553event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012–
E-0081542event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083685event The United States Vice President, Walter Mondale and the Prime Minister, John Vorster, meet in Vienna for two days of high-leve18 May 2012✓
E-0083668event Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen18 May 2012✓
E-0083633event Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr18 May 2012✓
E-0083631event A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto18 May 2012✓
E-0083483event Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,18 May 2012✓
E-0083445event On a meeting, twelve days after the first one on which was decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name De Burger is decide18 May 2012✓
E-0083436event Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near18 May 2012✓
E-0083434event Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric18 May 2012✓
E-0083432event Queen Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in Africa.18 May 2012✓
E-0083424event Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African18 May 2012✓
E-0083322event In a major move in the process of privatisation in South Africa, the Conversion of Iscor Bill is passed, enabling Iscor to be c14 May 2012✓
E-0083291event President Ahmed Ben Bella, of the republic of Algeria, returns home after a 25-day diplomatic tour to the Soviet Union and East14 May 2012✓
E-0083240event Hours after declaring its independence and the end of Britain’s 28-year-old Palestine mandate, the new state of Israel is attac14 May 2012✓
E-0083098event Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for11 May 2012✓
E-0082909event The European Union, South Africa’s greatest trading partner, says it plans to invest about US$ 210 million in the country in 197 May 2012–

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