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E-0083943event The British troopship Arniston is wrecked on the rocks at Waenhuiskrans(later called Arniston). 372 of the 378 people on board25 May 2012✓
E-0083920event Dr Azar Paul Jammine, businessman and director of several companies, is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He arrived in SA in 1950.25 May 2012✓
E-0083857event Craig Bishop of News 24 reports that Zimbabwe opposition party treasurer Roy Bennett has been denied asylum in South Africa, de25 May 2012✓
E-0082057event Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082042event Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082036event The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081878event Rijkloff van Goens leaves Table Bay after a stay of one month to report on what has been accomplished at the Cape.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081875event Several thousand mourners gather at a state funeral in Congo to pay tribute to 109 people killed in a series of mysterious airp13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081812event The ANC holds a special one-day summit with its alliance partners COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) and the S13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081703event S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081659event With Idi Amin Dada seeking exile in Saudi Arabia, Yusufu Kironde Lule is installed as President of Uganda by neighbouring Tanza5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081642event Sir Robert Nelson Kotzé, mining engineer who did much to promote safety in mines and who became vice-chancellor of the U5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083692event Kamuzu Banda of Malawi, Africa’s longest ruling dictator with thirty years at the helm, concedes defeat to Bakili Muluzi in the18 May 2012✓
E-0083689event The entire family of Morgan Montoedi, five members, are killed in a petrol bomb attack on their home in Kagiso, West Rand.18 May 2012✓
E-0083670event About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t18 May 2012✓
E-0083639event Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch18 May 2012✓
E-0083634event The expedition under August F. Beutler, which left the Cape at the end of February, reaches Boesmans River according to his jou18 May 2012✓
E-0083581event Louis Botha is to be the Union of South Africa’s first prime minister.  Herbert Gladstone, governor-general, asks him to const18 May 2012✓
E-0083576event Du Prè Alexander, Earl of Caledon arrives in the Cape as SA’s first civilian governor. He instituted circuit courts in 1811.18 May 2012✓
E-0083485event F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo18 May 2012✓
E-0083477event Seven French Trappist monks have been killed in Algeria two months after their kidnap by Islamic extremists of the Armed Islami18 May 2012✓
E-0083472event President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem18 May 2012✓
E-0083469event A three-day Seminar on the Future Role of the United Nations in Helping Address South Africa’s Socio-economic Problems is held18 May 2012✓
E-0083456event Dr Victorio Carpio of the Philippines falls ill after his visit, together with Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, to the Transkei.18 May 2012✓
E-0083392event In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con18 May 2012✓
E-0083369event An historic four hour meeting is held between the Council of Mining Unions, representing White miners; the NUM; Mr Adriaan Vlok14 May 2012–
E-0083354event WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi after eighteen day14 May 2012–
E-0083286event WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack14 May 2012✓
E-0083281event Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West14 May 2012✓
E-0083273event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri14 May 2012✓

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