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E-0082519event A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082341event The Jonker diamond, fourth largest stone on record, is cut in three after an intensive study of three months.  It was found by23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082337event Anglo-Boer War 2:A cease-fire between 12 p.m. and sunset is called to allow for a rugby match between the British and Boer forc23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082244event The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082231event Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082107event James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at23 Apr 2012–
E-0082100event Calvin Thusago, a reporter for SABC is stabbed to death by a mob of youths as they travel back from Sharpeville to film the des23 Apr 2012–
E-0081192event Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081132event Pieter Gijsbert van Noodt, governor at the Cape who allegedly died while four people were being hung on his order, is born in N30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081055event The strike crafts SAS Kobie Coetzee, P.W. Botha and Frederic Creswell are renamed SAS Job Maseko, SAS Shaka and SAS Adam Kok on30 Mar 2012–
E-0081054event The strike crafts SAS Kobie Coetzee, P.W. Botha and Frederic Creswell are renamed SAS Job Maseko, SAS Shaka and SAS Adam Kok on30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081021event An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079794event At least fifty-two people including thirty-two children under the age of two are slain by axe-wielding assailants in south Alge19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069952event Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, is born in Somer21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070578event Fires in Cape Town and the Western Cape are ‘out of control’. A woman and two teenagers have burnt to death in Khayelitsha, Cap5 Dec 2011–
E-0070499event Bartholomew Dias anchors for a few days at the present day Walvis Bay, and calls it Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceiçao. He was5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070413event Sifiso Mahlangu (10), who was sent back from England to his parents in SA in January, returns to Salome Stopforth, the lady who5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070350event BBC reports SA security police are cleared of any blame in the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko who died while in25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070332event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, is born on Robben Island, where her fath25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071174event Sir George Cathcart, governor and commander-in-chief at the Cape (31 March 1852-26 May 1854), is defeated when he attack Moshes14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070798event Egypt’s first Aswan Dam is unveiled 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of Cairo. The 40 meter (130ft) high Aswan Dam, designed to9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073533event Days after the murder of professor Brian Hahn, another UCT academic Dr Lisbe Smuts-Smith, 47, is murdered in cold blood at her31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072738event Anglo-Boer War 2: A cannon, known as ‘Long Cecil’, and named after Cecil John Rhodes, is fired for the first time at Boer force16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071879event Sithembele Zokwe, detained in terms of the Transkei Public Security Act of 1977, is shot dead at his home in Nqamakwe by police6 Jan 2012✓
E-0072411event The Galiot Noord is wrecked fifteen miles (24 km) west of Cape St Francis after a survey voyage to Delagoa Bay and Natal. Most16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073437event Transkei police kill three men, one of who is Mr Zolile Sangoni, when they fire on the occupants of a car outside Umtata, while31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073213event President Thabo Mbeki has a narrow escape in Abuja when he is nearly hit by a car shortly after the African Union heads-of-stat31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073034event Sokhaya Charles Nkosi, SA graphic artist, is born in Durban.  He was employed by the SABC (1982-1986) and is since then senior20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073021event The Star reports that a SARWHU shop steward, who went on a thirty-three-day hunger strike to back his demand either to be charg20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071782event Media 24 reports that about 75 people have died in Kenya of a hemorrhagic fever called Rift Valley Fever for the past three wee6 Jan 2012✓

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