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E-0069690event The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069671event The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged its alliance partner, the ANC, to clarify its stance on political and human rights ab11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069615event Police arrest 2,300 people in the Black township of Sebokeng in what is believed to be the biggest raid against Blacks living i11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070578event Fires in Cape Town and the Western Cape are ‘out of control’. A woman and two teenagers have burnt to death in Khayelitsha, Cap5 Dec 2011–
E-0070453event Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil wa5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070408event Mr Mhleli and Dr Warren Zolile Nombe are acquitted in the Umtata regional court of charges relating to terrorism and the ANC on5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070332event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, is born on Robben Island, where her fath25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070194event The British land a major force on l’Ile de France and capture the island from the French. They revert to the name Mauritius.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070956event George VI, who became king when his brother abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, is born. He visited SA in 1947 with his family.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070906event The first group of 120 exiles returning to South Africa under the agreement reached in August by UNHCR and the South African au9 Dec 2011–
E-0070864event Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda. When it seemed like the opposition DP party might win, the chair9 Dec 2011–
E-0070842event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Methuen attempt to advance and are defeated by the Boers under Cronje as the Battle of Mage9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070805event The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070798event Egypt’s first Aswan Dam is unveiled 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of Cairo. The 40 meter (130ft) high Aswan Dam, designed to9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073472event Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073793event At a meeting in Durban City hall Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini tells President de Klerk that he is prepared to set up a Zulu Ki31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073739event Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073734event A 463-ton British wooden ship, Childe Herold, en route from Bombay to London and carrying more than 1300 pieces of ivory, is wr31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073531event South Africa beats the West Indies with 50 runs in the seventh one-day cricket match at Centurion Park, to clinch the series 6-31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072777event It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072692event In the desperate hand to hand Battle of Abu Klea, the British under Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart repulse the Sudanese Camel Corp of16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072411event The Galiot Noord is wrecked fifteen miles (24 km) west of Cape St Francis after a survey voyage to Delagoa Bay and Natal. Most16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073415event World War 1: Gen. Louis Botha leaves for South West Africa to take control of the Union troops who would conquer the area from31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073347event The Venda Attorney General announces he has ordered an inquiry into the death of Mr. Muffle to be held in the Sibasa Magistrate31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073343event The Minister of Foreign Affairs, ‘Pik’ Botha, says in the House of Assembly that the Biko affair has done endless harm to South31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073317event Jan van Riebeeck delivers wood at Rondebosch in the Cape for the construction of a fort to defend the wheat fields of the Free31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073214event Royal sources announce Swaziland’s King Mswati III will introduce a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his 13th bride-to-be once she pas31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073145event The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073032event Dr Irvin Khoza (The Iron Duke) who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Personality of the Decade for his contribution to SA20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072960event Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.20 Jan 2012✓

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