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E-0083271event Anglo-Boer War 2:  After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.14 May 2012✓
E-0083256event Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.14 May 2012✓
E-0083225event Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea11 May 2012–
E-0083224event Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea11 May 2012✓
E-0083215event Petrus Vusi Mahlangu of Vlaklaagte No. 2 disappears after being shot at a taxi rank on his way to a meeting at Chief Mabogo’s k11 May 2012✓
E-0083141event A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, at 7:00 pm. No one is injured.11 May 2012–
E-0083102event Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born. Nurses in SA undertake to honour the oath of Florence Nighting11 May 2012✓
E-0083060event An historic four hour meeting is held between the Council of Mining Unions, representing White miners; the NUM; Mr Adriaan Vlok11 May 2012✓
E-0083045event WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi after eighteen day11 May 2012✓
E-0082911event Deputy President F.W. de Klerk announces that the National Party is to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 37 May 2012✓
E-0082866event Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o7 May 2012✓
E-0082847event Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise7 May 2012✓
E-0082834event The most publicised court case since apartheid ends. Mr Justice Willem van der Merwe pronounces former vice-president of SA, Mr7 May 2012✓
E-0082792event SA rugby is plunged into a crisis because Louis Luyt refuses to resign as president of the South African Rugby Football Union.7 May 2012✓
E-0082665event Dr Viljoen answers in parliament in response to a speech by Mr Peter Gastrow MP (National Democratic Movement) on behalf of Pee3 May 2012✓
E-0082660event Over 7,000 people attend a rally in Pretoria to mark the foundation on 4 May 1984 of the Afrikaner Volkswag (People’s Guard), a3 May 2012✓
E-0082651event WWII: A combined British military and naval force land on Madagascar and by the afternoon the town of Diego Suarez is captured.3 May 2012✓
E-0082625event ’Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa) is unanimously accepted as only official anthem in Parliament. The Englis3 May 2012✓
E-0082586event In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B3 May 2012✓
E-0082585event The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the3 May 2012✓
E-0082503event On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082499event Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082461event The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the30 Apr 2012–
E-0082451event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe30 Apr 2012–
E-0082444event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a30 Apr 2012–
E-0082388event President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation in Na23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082386event The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the23 Apr 2012–
E-0082377event As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082370event St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082357event Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori23 Apr 2012✓

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