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E-0070583event Allison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion, trade union leader, Black politician and businessman, is born at Sans Souci Mission5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070582event A proclamation by Commander R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070581event The Diadem, 158 tons, is stranded near Plettenberg Bay. All on board are saved.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070580event The Rev. Johannes Henoch Neethling, co-founder of the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, later the Paul Roos Gymnasium, and also the “Stel5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070579event An earthquake, measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, hits Cape Town.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070578event Fires in Cape Town and the Western Cape are ‘out of control’. A woman and two teenagers have burnt to death in Khayelitsha, Cap5 Dec 2011–
E-0070577event Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070576event The non-governmental organisation Surplus People Project (SPP) says the department of land affairs should consider using expropriation5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070575event Joe Ndhlela is appointed as executive head of the South African Premier Soccer League.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070574event Executive Outcomes, known for its paramilitary actions in Africa, closes down.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070573event The discovery of the oldest complete fossilised hominid or human-like skeleton in South Africa by Dr Ron Clarke of Witwatersran5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070572event A national strike paralyses Zimbabwe. Bowing to growing demonstrations, the government gives up plans for new taxes to finance5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070571event Mary Leaky (83), archaeologist, dies in Nairobi, Kenya.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070570event General Holomisa announces that he is abandoning a Supreme Court action aimed at forcing the ANC to reinstate him as a member a5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070569event Francois Botha, SA heavyweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070568event The president of the general assembly announces the repeal of the oil embargo against South Africa in view of the installation5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070567event The UN Electoral Assistance Unit sends a "Needs Assessment Team" to South Africa.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070566event Exchange of notes with Thailand on the establishment of diplomatic relations.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070565event American forces land in Somalia to begin humanitarian operation in famine-stricken country.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070564event SA signs co-operation agreement with Ciskei regarding structural adjustment.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070563event The Pan-Africanist Congress rejects the government’s invitation to negotiations. Newly elected PAC president, Clarence Makwetu,5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070562event Anti-apartheid forces hold a Conference for a Democratic Future (CDF) and pass a number of resolutions containing the elements5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070561event The International Olympic Committee asks the federations that govern worldwide sports to bar any athlete who competes in South5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070559event Walter Sisulu’s son Zwelakhe marries Zodwa Mdladlamba.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070558event Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070557event The United States withdraws the last of three C-130 transport planes sent to Congo in July to help the Kinshasa government airl5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070556event Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo, Zulu choirmaster and composer who was a founder member and first secretary of the Bantu Social5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070555event Tanganyika becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth with Julius Nyerere as president.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070554event Tanganyika becomes independent as Tanzania within the Commonwealth with Julius Nyerere as prime minister.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070553event The United Nations establishes a special committee to deal with South West Africa, with Victorio Carpio as chairman.5 Dec 2011✓

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