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E-0082843event Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.7 May 2012✓
E-0082837event The Rev. Andrew Murray, DRC minister and educationalist, and second son of Andrew Murray sr. (1794-1866), is born in Graaff-Rei7 May 2012✓
E-0082813event Following the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and over a thousand Mau Mau suspects the previous month, the Mau Mau carry out their bigg7 May 2012✓
E-0082787event Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr7 May 2012✓
E-0082739event A section of railway line is blown up near Hoedspruit, Northern Transvaal, in what is believed to be an ANC attack to coincide7 May 2012✓
E-0082674event Sierra Leone rebels seize peacekeepers from Zambia, raising to more than 300 the number of UN personnel they are believed to be3 May 2012✓
E-0082537event John Hanning Speke, British explorer who discovered the origin of the Nile and the first European to see Lake Victoria, is born3 May 2012✓
E-0082359event First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 223 Apr 2012✓
E-0082281event The Rand daily Mail reports that ninety-six White soldiers walked out of a camp in April in protest against alleged poor food a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082234event Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082182event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082157event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082138event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012–
E-0082137event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082125event Under an amendment to the Defence Act the definition of superior officer is changed with the effect that White and Black member23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081482event 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-0081460event Debarkation of the first British Settlers starts at Algoa Bay (now Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape, from where they are gra5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081152event Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081092event The Union Jack is lowered and British occupation of Simonstown comes to an end after 143 years. South Africa takes formal posse30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081079event Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea30 Mar 2012–
E-0081068event Cornelis de Houtman leaves the Netherlands for the Cape with four ships in search of a sea route to the East Indies. Muller: V30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081017event Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081001event At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081000event The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079851event The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079775event Justice Rumpff finds Sisulu and other accused not guilty on a charge of High Treason, in the special court in Pretoria They are19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079765event Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079745event About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070157event The first report of giraffes in South Africa by a European is made by Jonas de la Guerre, whose expedition to Namaqualand finds25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070130event Nick du Toit, found guilty of the failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, is jailed for thirty-four years. Four other South A25 Nov 2011✓

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