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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✓
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–

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