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E-0074392event David H.S. Annecke, pioneer in the field of tropical diseases who helped to bring malaria under control, is born in Aliwal Nort17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074377event According to figures in the Hansard, 918 people, of whom 722 were successful, applied to be reclassified from one race group to17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074324event George Rex, allegedly the son of King George III and Hannah Lightfoot, auctions his house in Cape Town and settles at Melkhoutk17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074264event Britain returns the Cape formally to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle. The agreem17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074232event De Grundel, a ninety-ton coastal vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is wrecked near Cape Hangklip. No lives are lost. The17 Feb 2012–
E-0074213event Eastern Province Herald reports that for the first time in SA police history three Black policemen were promoted to the rank of17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074212event The South African Defence Force has taken over from the police the security of Northern Natal since the area is becoming a thir17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074198event The Star newspaper reports that travelling in a cab was falling out of favour very quickly. This trend was attributed to the ch17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074191event Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.)17 Feb 2012–
E-0074190event Jan de la Fontaine becomes governor of the Cape. (He sold the first church organ in South Africa to the Groote Kerk.)17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074173event Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074145event Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to Ceylon as a gift to the King of Kandy. http://www.news24.com 17 Feb 2012–
E-0074035event The ANC expresses deep concern about latest revelations that the SA Defence Force had a budget of R 4.38 billion for its secret10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079662event The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079605event The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079585event At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079575event The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079406event Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079401event The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079365event More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079340event Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076860event James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076777event Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076774event Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076755event Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076742event Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076730event Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076726event In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a documented report on the low wages paid to Black workers12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076281event The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr5 Mar 2012–
E-0076266event Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w5 Mar 2012–

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