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E-0079804event During an emergency debate in Transkei’s Parliament in Umtata, Chief Matanzima threatens to cut diplomatic links with South Afr19 Mar 2012✓
E-0069991event The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069984event Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070528event A United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees. The team was delayed in5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070515event South Africa cricket players Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock make their debut in a match vs New Zealand, in Durban.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070445event Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070427event Clarence Mlami Makwetu, former president of the Pan Africanist Congress, is born in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transke5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070239event J.G. Strijdom, in his first public appearance as Prime Minister, tells a National Party gathering in Pretoria that nothing will25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071142event Robert Mugabe and ZANU Central Committee survive an assassination attempt in a bombing of the party headquarters in Harare. Sev14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071122event The government confirms that guerrillas are being trained for operations in South Africa from bases in Botswana and Mozambique.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071106event Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, minister of agriculture in the war-cabinet of Gen. Smuts, is born in Calvinia, CC.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070983event Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp (64), controversial missionary and physician in the Eastern Cape, dies in Cape Town.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070926event Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke, who played an important role in African social, educational and political life, dies in Pretoria.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073790event Several thousand teachers march to the regional offices of the Department of Education and Training (DET) in Johannesburg, in o31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073535event An official statement in Lagos announces that twelve people, including four local politicians, were killed in an attack over a31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072915event In Nigeria it is disclosed that Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is dead, apparently slain in coup a week earlier.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071928event Former State President Marais Viljoen is buried it the Presidential Acre in Bloemfontein, after a service in the Pretoria East6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073266event George William Stow, diamond trader and auctioneer in Kimberley and discoverer of the coalfields near Vereeniging, is born in W31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073261event Rovina Petronella Pienaar, wife of the Afrikaans author Sangiro (A.A. Pienaar), is found murdered in her home in Bloemhof.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073208event In Mogadishu, US Marines in a convoy carrying American diplomats open fire near a crowded food distribution centre. At least fi31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073121event In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k27 Jan 2012✓
E-0071814event Andries Dreyer, missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071803event In an historic victory, government troops capture the headquarters of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in central Angola. Savim6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071753event Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields, including the first Afrikaans films, is born in6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071539event Johannes Jacob van Tonder, founder of the FAK (Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge) is born in Venterstad in the Karoo.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071497event C. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae, is born in S14 Dec 2011✓
E-0079746event ANC calls a nation-wide stay-at-home in protest at the Sharpeville massacre. Passbooks are burned in countless bonfires.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0013707event Bob Woolmer, former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies16 Mar 2011✓
B-0008875biography Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba1912-2001✓
B-0124819biography Allister Sparks1933✓

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