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E-0069011event More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War).1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073502event In the preamble to the Bambatha rebellion, Umgeni divisional magistrate, Mr T.R. Bennett, is threatened by twenty-seven armed B31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073482event Ten French aid workers, kidnapped thirteen days earlier from a Somali refugee camp, are handed over to Ethiopian authorities by31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073478event The Prime Minister explains that administrative rationalisation is to be implemented in four states, and announces that the Dep31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071240event Adv. Mojankunyane Gumbi, Legal Advisor to the President’s Office (1999) and director of the Women’s Development Bank, is born i14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073790event Several thousand teachers march to the regional offices of the Department of Education and Training (DET) in Johannesburg, in o31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073775event Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller starts his fourth attempt to relieve Ladysmith, Natal. The British withdraw from their positions31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073648event President Mandela discloses that he has invited Cuban President Fidel Castro to South Africa. This move elicits expressions of31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073550event The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during 1973 the government for political reasons banned a to31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073530event A Swiss police officer is convicted of passing lists of suspected Islamic militants to Algerian authorities. At least four peop31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073517event Transkei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa because South Africa is now willing to negotiat31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072920event Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072917event At a meeting between John Vorster and eight ‘homelands’ leaders, strong representations are made to the Prime Minister on the d20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072880event Dr Verwoerd announces the introduction of legislation for a referendum of White voters to decide whether South Africa would bec20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072755event Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072752event The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071876event A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in spo6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071873event North African nations of Libya and Tunisia announce agreement to merge as a new republic, the Islamic Arab Republic". The6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071856event The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Gideon Nieuwoudt, former police officer, for the death of Steve Biko6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073355event According to a study by the Human Sciences Research Council, violent attacks by Whites against Blacks have increased sharply in31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073348event Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073289event Chief Matanzima announces that all South Africans seconded to the Transkei Army will leave Transkei by 31 March 1978.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073252event The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073167event Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs, minister of finance, is elected as the National Party’s candidate to succeed State President Jim Fouch27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073152event William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073121event In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073054event Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073052event Former State Pres. F.W. de Klerk admits to an extramarital affair with Elita Georgiades, wife of a rich Greek businessman.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073042event The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072969event Premier  John Vorster decrees that in the future the ‘homelands’ will be allowed to accept direct foreign financial aid.20 Jan 2012✓

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