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E-0070820event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.9 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-0069049event Britain and France agree to accept a Middle East cease-fire in the Suez War if UN forces can keep the peace.1 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-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-0073493event In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071246event South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West Africa. Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of ne14 Dec 2011✓
R-0104233archive The living wage campaign is not seperate from the struggles workers are waging every day - it is meant to strengthen them!22 Feb 2016–
E-0074002event Pres. Paul Kruger receives the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Orde van die Nederlandse Leeu), awarded to Dutch citizens for ser10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073752event The cricket tour by Mike Gatting’s England team is curtailed by four matches, including the second Test, due to pressure from t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073695event The Dutch East India Company issues an order that the statutes of India are to be followed strictly in the Cape.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073687event A Somali gunman hijacks a Lufthansa Airbus over Austria with 104 people aboard and orders it flown to New York, where he surren31 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-0073604event Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073601event Hundreds of singing Ethiopians line Addis Ababa’s streets to welcome the return of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant looted31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073591event The Government sets up a quick reaction network of ninety-six police officers and twenty-nine ANC contact personnel to deal wit31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073590event Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko is found slain at his family farm before he was to have presented a report on corruption. T31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073547event The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073523event Up to this date fourteen people have been killed in escalating violence in Venda sparked by allegations of ritual killings and31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072912event Rescue attempts are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072712event Mandela declares in Lusaka that the ANC will take power by force if it fails to reach agreement with the government.16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072696event In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073333event Macmillan, prime minister of Britain, delivers his ‘wind of change’ speech to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape Town31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073292event A new Black daily paper, promising to expose political ills, appears in Johannesburg. The Sowetan has the same format as the ba31 Jan 2012✓
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✓

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