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E-0091843event Three people are injured on the railway line in Maitland, Cape Town, in what can be considered SA’s first serious motorcar acci24 Aug 2012✓
E-0090525event Labour Party leader Allan Hendrickse warns President P.W. Botha: “If you want to negotiate with us, the Group Areas Act must go14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090390event World War 2: North Africa. US Army Air Force planes see action for the first time in North Africa, bombing German military posi14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090379event NG Kerk theologian Willie Jonker (77) dies at a Strand retirement home in the Western Cape. He will be remembered for having be10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090378event About 200 000 White South Africans will visit Soweto this year, according to the Soweto Tourism Association, up from 30 000 fiv10 Aug 2012–
E-0090216event D. Olewagen and J. Nel are executed by firing squad for treason in the Cape Colony, because they acted as horse guards for an i10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091437event Australia comes first in the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, winning 199 medals; England wins 136, Canada 99 and SA ends fi23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091226event About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th23 Aug 2012–
E-0091223event A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090039event The British settlement in Sierra Leone is founded. Britain says it is to provide a home in Africa for freed slaves and homeless10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089981event Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090980event More than 35 000 people force central Cape Town to a standstill as they march peacefully from St George’s Cathedral to the city14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090876event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Pres. Paul Kruger crosses the Transvaal border on his way to Lourenço Marques, from where he leaves for Eu14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083998event Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa25 May 2012✓
E-0083879event Dr. Milton Obote, deposed as Uganda’s president by Idi Amin in 1971, returns home from exile. He regains the presidency in Dece25 May 2012✓
E-0083872event Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg.   He was born deaf and atten25 May 2012✓
E-0083666event Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,18 May 2012–
E-0083619event The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R8718 May 2012✓
E-0083531event Anglo-Boer War 2: USA President McKinley says he will not intervene in the war in South Africa despite direct requests by Boer18 May 2012✓
E-0083506event In response to a car bomb attack in Pretoria which killed nineteen people, the South African air force bombs ANC bases in a Map18 May 2012✓
E-0083327event The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.  14 May 2012✓
E-0082868event Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou7 May 2012✓
E-0081480event In what is believed to be a first in Cape Town, lightning strikes a Brooklyn resident in her home.  The N1 freeway is closed t5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081184event At an informal meeting in Cape Town, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela agree to reschedule formal talks between the Go30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081141event Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079763event Coca-Cola, originally developed by Dr John Pemperton as a brain tonic, is sold for the first time in Atlanta, Georgia. It becam19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079706event UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar16 Mar 2012✓
E-0069558event SA boxer Vic Toweel loses his world bantamweight title when he is knocked out by Australian Jimmy Carruthers in the first round11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069551event Babu Bodasing, also known as Dulel Sing Boodasing, prominent sugar cane farmer on the Natal north coast who arrived in Port Nat11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069549event Anna E. Bliss and Abbie P. Ferguson arrive in Cape Town by boat from New York to start the Huguenot College in Paarl, CC.11 Nov 2011✓

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