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E-0082651event WWII: A combined British military and naval force land on Madagascar and by the afternoon the town of Diego Suarez is captured.3 May 2012✓
E-0082586event In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B3 May 2012✓
E-0082585event The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the3 May 2012✓
E-0082503event On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082455event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 30 Apr 2012–
E-0082388event President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation in Na23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082381event Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961. 23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082286event The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White state (volkstaat), but ex23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081441event Government soldiers in Lubumbashi, Zaire’s second largest city lay down their arms and join the cause of rebels advancing on th5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081220event MK hero Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed in Pretoria on two counts of murder. His comrade Monty Motloung, who had d30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081190event Zaire falls further into chaos when parliament and the new prime minister declare each other unconstitutional on the eve of pea30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079856event Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079739event Nearly one hundred officers and men of Wood’s column are killed in a desperate fight against a Zulu impi on Hlobane Mountain du19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070164event India announces that a preliminary conference will be held on 6 February 1950 in Cape Town to discuss the procedure of the prop25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070153event South Africa’s tour of the British Isles finishes on an upbeat note as Jake White’s experimental young side takes Scotland apar25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070102event Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070017event Vasco da Gama, on his way to the East, lands near present Mossel Bay, staying for a week.   Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afri21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069901event Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North Coast.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069894event The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069734event Shortly before midnight, a farmer, John Louis Steyn, 73, is found dead in his house on the Sand River smallholdings between Mak11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069669event Breyton Paulse is included after first being omitted in the Springbok team for the test against England on 20 November, after a11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069585event In a move set to keep SA and Africa on the European Union’s (EU’s) radar screen, President Thabo Mbeki leads a top delegation o11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070592event The Defence Minister denies that South Africa has sent troops to Malawi to quell the security threat on Malawi’s southern borde5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070377event The Wesleyan mission station Wesleyville, on the Twecu River in the present East London district, is founded by the Rev. Willia5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070363event President Nelson Mandela and Steve Tshwete are given leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the verdict on the SAR25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070342event The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070329event John Ayliff jr, missionary, private secretary of governor Sir George Grey and postmaster-general of Natal, dies on board the Da25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070320event The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070312event South Africa officially starts celebrating World Aids Day, to be marked on the first of December each year, when the Department25 Nov 2011✓
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✓

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