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E-0073256event The Star reports that the South African Council of Churches rejected the order that the organisation had to declare the identit31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073254event Five men are burned to death in Mdantsane, Ciskei. Mr M. Vellum escapes after already set alight with the five who died.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073236event Table Bay power station (Cape Town) goes into full commercial operation with what is then deemed to be its ultimate capacity.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073220event David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073202event City Press reports that (White) matriculants of the Menlo Park High School held a sit-in protest and handed a petition to the p31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073197event Nine of the world’s poorer nations open talks in Lusaka, Zambia, on a joint strategy to break traditional trade links with Sout31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073186event An Avro York aircraft, en route from Johannesburg to London, lands in Nairobi, Kenya, after the machine was damaged when a swar31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073116event The ANC announces that it has given President de Klerk a list of police officers believed to have participated in township viol27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073108event Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A27 Jan 2012✓
R-0073080archive Letter written by the Lord Killanin of the IOC to Frank Braun president of the South African National Olympic Committee, 196726 Jan 2012–
E-0073060event South Africa’s Ryk Neethling beat Igor Berezutsky of Russia by 22-hundredths of a second to win the 200-metre individual medley20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073053event Prof. Ben Marais (89), one of the first persons to denounce apartheid from within the Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Pretoria.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073045event André Stander, SA’s suave heist man and bank robber, flees to Fort Lauderdale in the US using a false passport. Allan He20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073009event Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072990event Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072975event The International Cricket Conference (ICC), after meeting in London on 23 and 24 January, decided to suspend as from 1 April al20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072946event Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliat20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071812event Signing of the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British under Gen. David Baird at Papendorp (presently Woodstock)6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071769event ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071669event Tony Blair, British premier, announces in Pretoria that Britain is going to increase the grant for development by 40% during th14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071647event The Boer generals report back in Pretoria after a campaign in Europe to procure aid for the reconstruction of the country after14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071645event At the great Xhosa gathering in King William’s Town, Xhosa chief Sandile pledges allegiance to the British crown in the presenc14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071625event The Battle of Wagon Hill (Platrand), south of Ladysmith, takes place, in which the Boer forces make an unsuccessful attempt to14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071623event Cecil John Rhodes is forced to resign as prime minister of the Cape, because of his involvement in the Jameson Raid.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071613event The Swedish Government announces that it will give financial aid totalling about 110 million Rand to the ANC and other organisa14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071594event Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071501event Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, poet and writer and first Black South African to receive a doctorate in literature, is born in Gro14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071482event A total of twenty-one people are serving life sentences for offences against the security of the state, according to the minist14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071431event Foreign Minister Dr Hilgard Muller apologises to Zambia for the actions of five members of the South African police detained on14 Dec 2011–
E-0071320event Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College, is born in Zutphen, the Netherlands. He was the first linguist to argue that Afrikaans14 Dec 2011✓

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