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E-0083186event An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.11 May 2012✓
E-0083177event Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi, premier of Libya, predicts the use of oil trading restrictions as a form of Arab nationalistic protec11 May 2012✓
E-0083165event WWI: General Louis Botha, leading the South African troops, enters undefended Windhoek, capital of German South West Africa, an11 May 2012✓
E-0083145event An International Labour Organisation report says South Africans are becoming poorer each year because of the cost of maintainin11 May 2012✓
E-0083123event Immorality Amendment Act No 21 commences, extending the 1927 Immorality Act to all Black people including Coloureds and Asians.11 May 2012✓
E-0083113event ”De Nationale Pers” forerunner to Tafelberg Publishers is registered as a company. Six years later the name was translated into11 May 2012✓
E-0083090event The Anti-Apartheid Movement in London ends its seventeen-year boycott of Barclays Bank for its South African ties.11 May 2012✓
E-0083048event Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem11 May 2012✓
E-0083040event The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a11 May 2012✓
E-0082914event Two Bengal tigers mangle Francois Cupido when he takes a short cut through the Queens Park zoo in East London.7 May 2012✓
E-0082903event Helene Pastoors, the Belgian national sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1986 for treason, is released from prison followi7 May 2012✓
E-0082882event Peter Schütz, S.A artist, is born in Glogau, East Germany. His family emigrated to SA in the early fifties.  7 May 2012✓
E-0082846event Five days after Italy captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Mussolini annexes Ethiopia and announces that Abyssinia is7 May 2012✓
E-0082815event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev arrives in the United Arab Republic to meet with Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nass7 May 2012✓
E-0082807event Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, SA ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former SA Minister of Education7 May 2012✓
E-0082774event World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d7 May 2012✓
E-0082772event WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered to the British by Vichy forces.7 May 2012✓
E-0082733event The British Lions rugby team leaves London to begin a controversial twenty-two-match tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.7 May 2012✓
E-0082720event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Holkrantz massacre takes place.  Qulusi-Zulu chief Sokhobobo takes an impi to recover cattle allegedly r7 May 2012✓
E-0082655event P.W. Botha, the Minister of Defence, announces that an air-to-air projectile has been perfected by South Africa.3 May 2012✓
E-0082623event The first regular jet flight  (with a Havilland Comet) leaves London with thirty-six passengers to arrive eighteen hours later3 May 2012✓
E-0082607event Cythna Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae and autho3 May 2012✓
E-0082576event The ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging) withdraws its special award to Madeleine van Biljon, because she admitted to no3 May 2012–
E-0082575event The ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging) withdraws its special award to Madeleine van Biljon, because she admitted to no3 May 2012✓
E-0082505event Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie, Deputy Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082453event Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.30 Apr 2012–
E-0082445event Daniël Jacobus Erasmus (83), former acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Nov. 1871-July 1972), dies in B30 Apr 2012–
E-0082379event Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082371event Daniël Jacobus Erasmus (83), former acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Nov. 1871-July 1972), dies in B23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082355event IBM shareholders in Washington vote against a resolution calling on the company to sever all commercial ties with South Africa.23 Apr 2012✓

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