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B-0151812biography Bheki Cele1952✓
R-0101661archive The beginning of it all: an address given to the Black Sash at their National Conference at Cape Town22 Feb 2016–
E-0068953event Sir John Cradock, governor of the Cape, issues a proclamation putting the Hottentots (Khoi-Khoi) under colonial law. This means1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069445event Anton Anreith, renowned SA sculptor, arrives in the Cape as soldier in service of the Dutch East India Company.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069201event The Rev. Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen (64), founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, dies in Paarl, Cape Colony.7 Nov 2011✓
E-0087433event The 40th person commits suicide by jumping from the Van Stadens River bridge near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.28 Jun 2012✓
R-0087042archive SPEECH BY PRESIDENT MANDELA AT THE AWARD CEREMONY FOR THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR COMMUNITY INITIATIVE Cape Town, 5 February 199827 Jun 2012–
R-0086769archive NOTES FOR PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA’S CLOSING ADDRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET DEBATE Cape Town, 3 May 199527 Jun 2012–
E-0089602event Rosalind Ballingall, drama student of the University of Cape Town, disappears mysteriously from the house she rents with friend31 Jul 2012✓
E-0074168event The Navy frigate SAS President Kruger sinks at Cape Point after colliding with the SAS Tafelberg, eighteen people die.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0076293event Thousands of Cape Peninsula train commuters are left stranded when the deliberate destruction of a major cable throws the train5 Mar 2012–
E-0074757event Enoch Mgijima, Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, dies in Ntabelanga. His followers, believing Enoch’s c24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074749event The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074588event Thousands of Cape Peninsula train commuters are left stranded when the deliberate destruction of a major cable throws the train24 Feb 2012✓
E-0011237event The Duke of Cornwall, later King George V of Britain, lays the cornerstone of St George’s cathedral in Cape Town16 Mar 2011✓
E-0092252event The ‘Afrikaanse Taalmonument’ (Afrikaans Language Monument), on the slope of Paarl Rock just outside Paarl, Western Cape, is in27 Aug 2012✓
E-0090380event The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is publis14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090129event Ernst Albert Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, lays the foundation stone of the dry dock of Table Bay, Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090000event Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape, declares the maintenance of British authority over all emigrant Boers and defines10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089953event The Prime Minister meets for four hours in Cape Town with a delegation of politicians from the Coloured Representative Council10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089675event Sydney Smith Bell, judge in the Cape Colony, is appointed as chief justice and president of the legislative assembly.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091140event The railway line between Cape Town and Johannesburg is completed.   The first train arrives after a journey lasting two days,23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090913event Prof. Felix Lategan, first professor in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University College of the Western Cape, is born.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083933event Local elections held in the Western Cape result in the National Party securing control of all three district councils.25 May 2012✓
E-0082757event Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille is elected with overwhelming majority as head of the country’s official opposition, the Democratic7 May 2012✓
E-0070217event A document released in Cape Town, discloses that SA ministers condoned the murder of Black demonstrators during the 1976 riots.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071020event Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger and General J.B.M.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073616event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Christiaan de Wet invades the Cape Colony for the second time at Zanddrif, near Philippolis.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071344event Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
R-0150639archive Women's Organisations in the Western Cape9 Dec 2020–

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