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E-0083258event ’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).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-0083203event Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co11 May 2012–
E-0083195event For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men11 May 2012✓
E-0083164event Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by rebel tribesm11 May 2012✓
E-0083112event Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a11 May 2012✓
E-0083110event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts enters Kroonstad. President M.T. Steyn proclaims Heilbron in the Orange Free State as his new ca11 May 2012✓
E-0083057event Zambia’s security chief Alex Shapi says in Lusaka that the ANC has begun disarming guerrillas in that country after five people11 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-0083042event Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a11 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-0082835event Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba7 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-0082827event The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asks Pretoria to clarify its position on amnesty, as well as on any o7 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-0082734event The government announces that its aim is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible.7 May 2012✓
E-0082714event Lady Anne Barnard (75), wife of colonial secretary Andrew Barnard and a chronicler of daily life in the colony in a series of l7 May 2012✓
E-0082671event A twenty-year ban on big-game hunting is lifted in the Côte d’Ivoire in an attempt to raise tourist revenue.3 May 2012✓
E-0082656event Tallal Khaled Kaddourah and Safik Hussein el-Anda, under death sentence in Greece for their part in the 5 August terrorist atta3 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-0082639event President F. W. de Klerk announces plans to revise some provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1982. He also offers to incl3 May 2012✓
E-0082590event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,3 May 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-0082455event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 30 Apr 2012–
E-0082442event Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres30 Apr 2012–
E-0082381event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082368event Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres23 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✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082236event WWII: East Africa: The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, is captured by Gener23 Apr 2012✓

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