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E-0070846event George VI becomes King of England following the abdication of Edward VIII. The Royal family visited South Africa in 1947.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070800event Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069075event Jan Eloff, son-in-law of President Paul Kruger, is appointed as commissioner of Johannesburg, replacing Carl von Brandis, who w1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069055event After a meeting between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073490event Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic priest accused of participating in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsi by ethnic Hutu in Rwanda, sur31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073456event At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071277event SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.14 Dec 2011✓
R-0108125archive Press statement issued by the National Union of Namibian Workers [and] the Congress of South African Trade Unions, 6 April 198922 Feb 2016–
E-0074003event Cecil John Rhodes gives evidence before the South African Committee of the House of Commons on the Jameson Raid enquiry.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073782event President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073719event African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073693event President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of31 Jan 2012–
E-0073681event With the return of President Lucas Mangope to office after the short-lived coup, students at the University of Bophuthatswana d31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073629event Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073618event Two policemen are killed by a group of Blacks near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to collection of poll-tax, which31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073607event Commandant-General M.W. Pretorius installs Mpande as King of the Zulus after the power of Mpande’s brother, Dingane, is broken31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073566event Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072918event At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072901event A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072778event The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, is detained by the police, accused of subversi16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072740event General J.B.M. Hertzog, as leader of the Opposition, announces he will introduce a motion calling on the Union of South Africa16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072703event Patrice Lumumba, first and only elected Prime Minister of Congo, is murdered. The killing of Lumumba remained a secret for year16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071880event SA signs a medical co-operation treaty with the government of the Republic of China, providing advanced training for medical an6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073287event An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073258event President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073251event The official Commission of Inquiry into the media appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tables it31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073155event Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073129event The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073122event President Mandela meets United States black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. Both state their opposi27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073025event The Cape High Court sets aside the department of environmental affairs’ decision to allow the construction of a pebble bed modu20 Jan 2012✓

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