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E-0079357event Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut16 Mar 2012✓
E-0074751event Cape Town’s Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir, named after Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, at one time governor of Natal and of the24 Feb 2012✓
E-0096950event Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.31 Jan 2014–
R-0099143archive Document 103 - Programme of the National Liberation League of S.A. as Revised and Adopted at First Congress, Cape Town, March 1937 26 Mar 2015–
E-0092600event Cattle-herd David Jansz is murdered at the Cape by a group of Strandlopers (a Khoi-Khoi tribe), led by interpreter Herry who t27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092185event Fifty-two taxis are destroyed by fire at Inyanga taxi rank on the Cape Flats. A case of arson is being investigated.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0090319event Explorer and navigator Vasco da Gama arrives in Lisbon after completing his voyage to India around the Cape of Good Hope.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090180event Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091549event Jan Hendrik Boom, gardener at the Cape, and his wife Annetjie (Annetjie de Boerin), receive permission to farm and keep dairy c23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091229event Samuel Bonnin Hobson, school inspector of the Cape Province and co-author with his brother, G.C. Hobson, of animal stories, is23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090017event The State President Dr. Nicolaas J. Diederichs dies of a heart attack in Cape Town. Following an earlier heart attack on 12 Aug10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089732event Over 200 students at the University of Cape Town embark on a “sit in” to protest against government intervention that forced th10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090871event Lady Elizabeth Somerset, wife of Governor Lord Charles Somerset, dies at Newlands House, Cape Town. She is buried in the Groote14 Aug 2012✓
E-0083955event Anna (Sister Annie) Tempo, community and social worker and founder of ‘Nanny House’ for destitute girls on the streets of Cape25 May 2012✓
E-0081878event Rijkloff van Goens leaves Table Bay after a stay of one month to report on what has been accomplished at the Cape.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081829event Phambili Ka Ntloko, prominent member of AZAPO and elected national organiser of the movement in 1985, is born in Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083576event Du Prè Alexander, Earl of Caledon arrives in the Cape as SA’s first civilian governor. He instituted circuit courts in 1811.18 May 2012✓
E-0083472event President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem18 May 2012✓
E-0082648event High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph3 May 2012✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082148event Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well23 Apr 2012✓
E-0071131event Former President F.W. de Klerk, speaking on Robben Island off Cape Town at a commemoration of the role played by Mahatma Gandhi14 Dec 2011✓
E-0069080event At 4 p.m. a stone meteorite of 0,9kg makes a hole in a corrugated iron roof on the farm Hermitage, in Constantia, Cape, without1 Nov 2011✓
E-0071288event Jean van der Poel, eminent historian and teacher who researched on the life of General Smuts, is born in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073670event Part of District Six is proclaimed as a White group area.  New Coloured residential areas will be established on the Cape Flat31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073220event David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073009event Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo20 Jan 2012✓
B-0008173biography Nathaniel Impey Honono1908-1986✓
E-0094871event Justin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town14 Feb 2013✓
B-0008307biography Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden1913-1998✓

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