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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-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-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-0082815event Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev arrives in the United Arab Republic to meet with Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nass7 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-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-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-0082355event IBM shareholders in Washington vote against a resolution calling on the company to sever all commercial ties with South Africa.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082287event A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082251event Hijackers seeking to draw attention to the economic and political strife in Ethiopia divert a passenger plane to Khartoum, Suda23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082217event Ten commuters are killed in a bomb explosion at a taxi rank in Germiston. The ‘Blanke Bevrydings-beweging’  (BBB) accepts resp23 Apr 2012–
E-0082208event Ten commuters are killed in a bomb explosion at a taxi rank in Germiston. The ‘Blanke Bevrydings-beweging’  (BBB) accepts resp23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082142event Seven people die and fourteen are injured when a car bomb, planted by the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging), explodes in Breë23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082123event It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082114event Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081539event President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is the first French president to visit Algeria since independence was achieved in 1965 Apr 2012✓
E-0081417event The United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) is established to research and prevent disease and improve public health wor5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081183event The Venda government under President Frank Ravele falls in a military coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, who im30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081164event Combat-General Georges-Henri Anne Marie Victor Compte de Villebois-Mareuil, a former commander in the French Foreign Legion, ma30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081069event Cape Governor Lord Charles Somerset concludes a treaty with the Xhosa chief, Gaika. Gaika thus received British help when his u30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079852event South Africa deports self-confessed CCB agent Donald Acheson to London. Irish-born Acheson was implicated in the assassination19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079736event The ship Amersfoort, which two months earlier has intercepted a Portuguese slaver bound from Angola to Brazil, arrives in Table19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070172event Rhodesia announces 1 200 have been killed in its recent raids against Black nationalist guerrillas across the border in Mozambi25 Nov 2011✓

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