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E-0071377event Violence claims the lives of fourteen people during the Christmas weekend.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071376event Swaziland and South Africa agree to exchange trade representatives who will have the same rights and privileges as diplomatic p14 Dec 2011–
E-0071375event France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071374event 5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt following the14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071373event Rev Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa since 1975 and SA minister of sport and recrea14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071372event SA abandons the gold standard.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071371event Lucas Manyane Mangope, president of the former homeland Bophuthatswana, is born in Motswedi, near Zeerust, Transvaal.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071370event Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the “Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold” for his contribution as busines14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071369event The first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071368event Astley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071367event Harry Escombe (61), premier of Natal and founder of the Natal Naval Volunteers in 1885, dies in Durban.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071366event Ivan Curlewis, Transvaal judge, is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071365event In the Battle of the White Umfolozi, the Voortrekker commando is ambushed and nearly overpowered by a Zulu impi. Alexander Harv14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071364event James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071362event Louis van Assenburgh (51), successor of Willem Adriaan van der Stel as governor at the Cape, dies in the Castle in Cape Town af14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071361event Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071360event A C-130 Hercules with ten passengers and a crew of four, under which a SA pilot, disappears near Huambo, Angola.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071359event Paul Adams became South Africa’s youngest Test Cricket player, aged 18 years and 340 days.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071358event Ten people are killed in a retaliation attack on the kraal of an ANC supporter.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071357event Cariango, Angola is taken by Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) guerril14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071356event American Max Conrad sets a new world non-stop-flight record with his 7,878 mile journey from Cape Town, South Africa, to St Pe14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071355event Charlie Frank, cricketer (South Africa Test centurion vs Australia 1921-22), dies.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071354event Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs South Africa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071353event Edgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071352event George Mzimvube Matanzima, Prime Minister of the Transkei, 1979 and younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima, is born at Qamata, Tr14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071351event The German gunboat, the Kingani, is captured by the British on Lake Tanganyika. It is removed by portage through the jungle of14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071350event The Uganda railway between Mombassa and Lake Victoria is completed.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071349event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Greylingstad takes place when Commandant Buys attacks the South Rand mine, near Greylingstad. P14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071348event Alfred Whaley Cole (73), SA judge and author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071347event King Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with East Africa Company.14 Dec 2011✓

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