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E-0071389event Albert Kimmerling, a visiting Frenchman, is the first person to fly in SA. He reaches a height of 6m at East London.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071388event French Congo is split into Ubangi-Shari, Chad, Gabon, and Middle Congo.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071387event Commandant Gideon Scheepers is found guilty on several charges by a British court martial and sentenced to death. He professes14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071386event Prof. Dirk Postma, founder of the “Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika” (GKSA, nicknamed ‘Doppers’) and head of the reformed the14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071385event Christiaan Frederik Louis Leipoldt, SA poet, dramatist, journalist and physician, is born in Worcester, Western Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071384event Dr Rudolph Marloth, SA collector of plants, is born in Lubben, Brandenburg, Germany.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071383event Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel lays the first bricks of an octagonal church, the tower of which still forms part of the G14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071382event Election in Kenya. President Daniel Arap Moi leaves office and is succeeded by opposition leader Mwai Kibaki as Kenya’s third p14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071381event Zolani Petelo, SA mini flyweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071380event Samuel Magaula Mabuja, East Rand MK commander, is shot and killed by police in Vosloorus.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071379event Egypt and Syria resume full diplomatic relations after a twelve-year break.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071378event The ANC accuses the SA government of ransacking its offices in Maputo, Mozambique.14 Dec 2011✓
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✓

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