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E-0073379event Vincent Baloyi, SA artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073313event The Lusa news agency reports that torrential rains in northern Angola have damaged at least two bridges, knocked out power and31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073270event Bosman de Ravelli (Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman), concert pianist and composer of the first Afrikaans art song in 1908, is born.  H31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073223event Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (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-0073203event Allan Hendrickse, leader of the Labour Party, replaces Carter Ebrahim as Minister of Education and Culture in the House of Repr31 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✓
E-0073174event A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073137event Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073108event Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073045event André Stander, SA’s suave heist man and bank robber, flees to Fort Lauderdale in the US using a false passport. Allan He20 Jan 2012✓
E-0073008event The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072994event At least 100 people drown and the town is devastated when the river at Laingsburg in the Karoo floods its banks.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072993event A bank and twenty-five hostages are seized in Silverton, Pretoria. Two of the hostages die; several are injured; all three ANC20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072990event Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072975event The International Cricket Conference (ICC), after meeting in London on 23 and 24 January, decided to suspend as from 1 April al20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072950event Louis Schmidt (62), ex Springbok, captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team and the original ‘Blou Bul’ (Blue Bull), dies in20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072946event Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliat20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071812event Signing of the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British under Gen. David Baird at Papendorp (presently Woodstock)6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071769event ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071758event Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071639event News 24 reports that the Irish deputy premier, Mary Harney, from Dublin, has quietly been holidaying with family and friends in14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071635event Joe Slovo (69), national chairman of the Communist Party in South Africa and Minister of Housing in the Government of National14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071613event The Swedish Government announces that it will give financial aid totalling about 110 million Rand to the ANC and other organisa14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071608event The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071594event Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071500event The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by t14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071484event Frederick and Clifford Nissen, brothers of the ANC assistant secretary of the Western Cape, the Rev. Chris Nissen, is shot dead14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071466event E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071459event Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door14 Dec 2011✓

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