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E-0082804event Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania.  His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined7 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 2012✓
E-0082111event 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-0082096event 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-0081493event Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081220event MK hero Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed in Pretoria on two counts of murder. His comrade Monty Motloung, who had d30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081117event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081111event Pope John Paul (84), the third-longest serving Pontiff in world history, dies in his private apartment at the Vatican surrounde30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081099event In an interim report, the Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior30 Mar 2012✓
E-0070017event Vasco da Gama, on his way to the East, lands near present Mossel Bay, staying for a week.   Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afri21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069734event Shortly before midnight, a farmer, John Louis Steyn, 73, is found dead in his house on the Sand River smallholdings between Mak11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069620event Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070187event Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila’s soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071164event General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs14 Dec 2011✓
E-0069042event Forces of the British South Africa Company force Matabele King Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to flee his Great Place in Bulawayo1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073454event Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071280event Vasco da Gama, Portuguese discoverer who discovered a sea route from Europe to Asia around Africa, dies on his final voyage to14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071274event Ryan Byisile Mapisa of Duncan Village disappears after being dragged into a car at his home by five men who identify themselves14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073603event SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in three matches and Justin Kemp hammers a spectacular 80 off 50 balls31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073590event Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko is found slain at his family farm before he was to have presented a report on corruption. T31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073396event The European Community agrees to lift sanctions as soon as President F.W. de Klerk fulfils his pledge to repeal cornerstone apa31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073333event Macmillan, prime minister of Britain, delivers his ‘wind of change’ speech to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape Town31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073160event Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073031event WWII: SA prime minister, General Jan Smuts, asks parliament’s approval to send troops to Europe, contrary to his promise in 19320 Jan 2012✓
E-0073009event Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072990event Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072946event Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliat20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071623event Cecil John Rhodes is forced to resign as prime minister of the Cape, because of his involvement in the Jameson Raid.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071524event Donald Woods, editor of the East London Daily Dispatch, escapes to Lesotho through the Caledon River on his way to London.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071466event E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d14 Dec 2011✓

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