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E-0070142event Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two mercenaries involved in the hijacking of an Air India plane after the a25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069894event The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069712event Prof. Elize Botha, Afrikaans literary critic and former president of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SA Academy of Scien11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070627event The Rivonia Trial, concerning two charges of sabotage, one under the Suppression of Communism Act, and one under the General La5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070617event Peter (Petrus) K. Masiza, teacher and later priest in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, dies in Tsomo, Eastern Cap5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070582event A proclamation by Commander R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070573event The discovery of the oldest complete fossilised hominid or human-like skeleton in South Africa by Dr Ron Clarke of Witwatersran5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070536event News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070467event A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070396event The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070342event The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070329event John Ayliff jr, missionary, private secretary of governor Sir George Grey and postmaster-general of Natal, dies on board the Da25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070320event The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070267event A group of forty German travel agents are robbed at gunpoint of their handbags in their bus at Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070187event Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila’s soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071039event Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), formed since June 1961 under leadership of Nelson Mandela, performs its first acts of sabotage by attac9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070923event Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070865event The UN Security Council chooses Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070801event Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069082event British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the grave of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Tombs1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069042event Forces of the British South Africa Company force Matabele King Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to flee his Great Place in Bulawayo1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069038event Soweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged on two counts of reckless and/or negligent driving and one1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069027event Two South Africans of Indian descent, including the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, are told they could not travel to New Delh1 Nov 2011–
E-0069007event Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, dies1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073766event The Star reports the first human embryos were cloned by a team of South Korean researchers under leadership of Woo Suk Hwang.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073764event Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire suspected of being behind the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, is reporte31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073716event Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073675event A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investig31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073668event The defence minister, J.J. Fouché, announces in the House of Assembly that he intends to increase the strength of the pe31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073659event Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor31 Jan 2012✓

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