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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✓
E-0073613event A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073573event General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073548event The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073516event Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 19731 Jan 2012✓
E-0073506event Sen. Tommy Boydell, member of the Labour Party and ex-minister in the coalition cabinet of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, assaults J.S. M31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072884event South Africa signs treaty with Portugal (for Angola) on the first phase development of the water resources of the Kunene River20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072768event Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Tabanyama, Natal front, a group of Indian stretcher bearers, among whom the young Durban att16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072764event Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born16 Jan 2012✓

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