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E-0082060event Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre23 Apr 2012–
E-0082006event Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre23 Apr 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-0081971event The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, and Panmure, are mer23 Apr 2012–
E-0081906event Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four other women arrive in Harare for three days13 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-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-0081738event A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C13 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-0083690event The Star reports that the two biggest unions in the financial sector, the 34 000-strong South African Society of Bank Officials18 May 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-0083630event An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in18 May 2012✓
E-0083602event The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, pays a two-day visit to South Africa at the invitation of Har18 May 2012✓
E-0083571event Four people are seriously injured after being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr18 May 2012–
E-0083570event Four people are seriously injured after being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr18 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-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-0083251event Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against14 May 2012–
E-0083238event Amy Johnson arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back.14 May 2012✓
E-0083200event Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of adventure books (i.e. King Solomon’s Mines) who worked in SA for several years, dies in Lond11 May 2012✓
E-0083194event The area Ohrigstad River in the Lydenburg district is proclaimed as a public gold field after the discovery of gold in the Sela11 May 2012✓
E-0083159event King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops.   Another source alleges that he was shot dead by a c11 May 2012✓
E-0083154event South Africa enters the ranks of the world’s oil-producing countries when oil for commercial use is pumped from the Oribi oilfi11 May 2012✓
E-0083105event Sir George Napier annexes Natal for Britain. It became a district of the Cape Colony on 31 May 1844. (Muller: 500 Years: a hist11 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-0082910event 104 miners are crushed to death when an elevator carrying gold miners plunges to the bottom of a Vaal Reef mineshaft near Orkne7 May 2012✓
E-0082854event Abram (Bram) Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy with the ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe to commit7 May 2012✓
E-0082852event Two delegates of the UN, Dr Victorio Carpio and Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, visit South West Africa (now Namibia) after talk7 May 2012✓

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