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E-0088683event A surprise top-level military meeting between Angola, South Africa and Cuba ends in Cape Verde. The talks follow reports that a20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088616event Anglo-Boer War 2: Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell, a special service officer sent by the British Colonial Office, lands at Cape Tow20 Jul 2012✓
E-0085017event Guy Tachard, a French astronomer who set up an observatory in die Company Gardens in the Cape, makes his first observations.1 Jun 2012✓
E-0074482event Lucas Mbembe (60), ANC official and chair of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers Association, is gunned down after coming from a c17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074263event Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074234event Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.17 Feb 2012✓
E-0079596event South African author Olive Schreiner is born at Wittebergen Mission Station near Herschel in the Eastern Cape. Her best-known w16 Mar 2012✓
E-0092751event Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh28 Aug 2012✓
E-0090331event Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, co-founder of i.a.  The African Garment Workers’ Union in Cape Town, jailed and10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090268event Retired Royal Navy officer, Lieutenant Francis Farewell of Cape Town, hoists the Union Jack at Port Natal and takes possession10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091587event Margaret Mary Smith, artist and ichthyologist, is born in Indwe, Eastern Cape. She illustrated the book of her husband, Prof. J23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091451event South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive, meeting in Cape Town, elects Sorabjee Rustomjee as a delegate of SAIC to the me23 Aug 2012–
E-0089947event Dr. Abrahams makes a habeas corpus application to the Cape Supreme Court and demands his return to Bechuanaland where he claims10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089718event Charles Frederick Morris Saint, first professor of surgery at the Medical school in Cape Town, is born in Northumberland, Engla10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091013event Louis Washkansky, first heart transplant patient in the world on 3 December 1967, is admitted to Groote Schuur hospital in Cape14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090907event Abraham Esau, Calvinian Coloured leader and martyr is born in Kenhardt, Cape Colony.  He aided the British Imperial cause duri14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083983event Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, becomes a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. (Muller (ed): 50025 May 2012✓
E-0083858event Robert Moffat, of the London Missionary Society, arrives with his wife at Maruping, Northern Cape, to assist with missionary wo25 May 2012✓
E-0083609event The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.18 May 2012–
E-0083608event The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.18 May 2012✓
E-0083396event Sir Christopher Joseph Quinton Brand, aviation pioneer who completed the first flight from London to Cape Town with Sir Pierre18 May 2012✓
E-0083074event WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Gustav von Vaerst’s 5th Panzer Army finally surrenders on the Cape Bon peninsula11 May 2012✓
E-0082636event Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe3 May 2012✓
E-0082487event Sir Gilbraith Lowry Cole, governor of the Cape, is born. Sir Lowry’s Pass was built during his time of office.30 Apr 2012✓
E-0070155event Thousands of passengers are stranded countrywide after runways of Cape Town airport were closed because of a huge hole in the s25 Nov 2011–
E-0069962event Gen. R.C. Hiemstra opens the Castle of Good Hope military museum in Cape Town, reflecting various aspects of military history s21 Nov 2011✓
E-0071145event Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073272event The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071626event Walter Whall Battiss, South African educationist, painter and specialist on the San art, is born in Somerset East, Eastern Cape14 Dec 2011✓
B-0149346biography Piet Mokoena1971✓

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