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E-0082272event Spanish Southern Protectorate (part of Spanish Sahara), one of four ‘international administrative zones’ imposed on Morocco in23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082256event William Cotton Oswell, scout who saw the Victoria Falls with David Livingstone, is born in Worthing, England.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082230event William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba), author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagon-maker, dies in Lovedale, East23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082104event AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates23 Apr 2012–
E-0082086event Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 23 April.23 Apr 2012–
E-0081445event Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat survives a plane crash in the Sahara desert during a sand storm. T5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081416event WWII:  British forces under Archibald Wavell evacuate Benghazi, Libya. Date given as 3 April 1941 in another source.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081191event Twelve people are killed when their bus leaves the road in Van Rhyn’s Pass near Vanrhynsdorp, Namaqualand.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081137event Gen. Nicolaas Smit (59), vice-president of the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Pretoria.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081096event Dr William Fehr (75), first collector of Africana who imported it from abroad, dies in Cape Town.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079831event Building on the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079803event Dr Willem van der Ross (77), researcher known for his study of double stars, dies in Johannesburg.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070151event Prof. Benedictus Kok (90), former rector of the University of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070150event Laurie Wilmot, former EP cricket captain, appears in the Grahamstown court on charges of rape of minors.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069975event Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, delivering the second annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg issues a stern warning th21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069928event Keith McFadden and Zwelakhe Nyanda, both ANC members, are shot dead by two gunmen in Manzini, Swaziland.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069898event Leaders of the four ‘independent’ homelands meet central government representatives in Pretoria, chaired by President P.W. Both21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069878event Sir John Carruthers Beattie, first rector of the University of Cape Town, is born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069877event Daniël Francois du Toit, founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners, is born in Daljosafat, CC.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069847event Johan Frederik van Oordt (D’Arbez), early Afrikaans author of historical stories, is born in Cape Town.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069601event Chinua Achebe, Nigerian (Igbo) novelist, whose first novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958, is born.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069586event Dr Jurgens van Olselen, a clinical psychologist testifying in the Pretoria High Court, describes Pretoria’s high security C-Max11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069583event The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 1998, protecting women and children in traditional marriages and specifying that a11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069582event Pieter Kenyon (P.K.) van der Bijl (76), former cabinet member of Zimbabwe, dies in Napier, Western Cape.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069562event State President John Vorster, former Prime Minister, appears before the Erasmus Commission in connection with the Information s11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070606event Barbara da Silva (48), second wife of Dr Chris Barnard, dies in Cape Town of breast cancer.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070584event Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of eight dictionaries and three grammar books, is born in Aberdeen, CP.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070459event Sir Otto John Beit, financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, is born in Hamburg, Germany.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070319event The Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Act, (Act 15 of 1997), is implemented, regulating GMOs in South Africa.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071204event Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron (née Martinius), educationist, is born in Clanwilliam, Western Cape. She was one of14 Dec 2011✓

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