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E-0011226event Dinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers16 Mar 2011✓
B-0097304biography Villa Baker1917-2004✓
B-0008084biography Wilhelmina Louisa Freund1890-1938✓
B-0068143biography Saul Msane1856-1919–
B-0007831biography Hymie Barsel1920–
P-0065685place Elizabeth le Roux Hostel, Bloemfontein14 Jul 2011✓
B-0008166biography Percy John "Jack" Hodgson1910-1977✓
B-0124602biography Laurent Kabila1939-2001✓
B-0007805biography Baden Powell1857-1941–
A-0122857article SS Mendi20 Feb 2017–
P-0066197place Staats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria14 Jul 2011✓
E-0069213event US and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.7 Nov 2011✓
E-0087416event World War II: North Africa. British Commander-in-Chief (Middle East) Claude Auchinleck, acting on information obtained by Ultra28 Jun 2012✓
E-0087342event World War II: North Africa. Hampered by sandstorms, General Erwin Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika overrun an infantry brigade at Di28 Jun 2012✓
E-0089538event World War 2: North Africa. A week before Mussolini orders General Rodolfo Graziani to invade Egypt from Libya, the British RAF31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089284event WWI:  Germany invades Belgium and when London’s ultimatum to Berlin to withdraw expires at midnight, Britain declares war on G31 Jul 2012✓
E-0086101event A U.N. fuel barge sails into Kisangani reopening the Congo River after war severed the African nation’s most important transpor15 Jun 2012✓
U-0098051event Book Launch: Brothers in War and Peace Abraham and Constand Viljoen and the Birth of the New South Africa25 Jul 2014–
E-0076768event The Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0074755event SA troops led by Gen. Jan Smuts invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0092602event Col. George Sackville Fraser, after whom Fraser’s Camp, military outpost established by the British during the frontier war of27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091709event WWII: The Active Citizen Force units of SA are authorised to accept volunteers for the duration of the war.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091263event War is barely averted when a British expedition to establish a route through Africa reaches an obscure Sudanese fort and finds23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090839event Eighty-three German war orphans arrive in Pretoria.   The prime minister, Dr D.F. Malan and his wife adopt a girl.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0081983event Arthur Wellesley Briscoe (30), SA cricket player in three test matches, is killed in Ethiopia during World War II.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082774event World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d7 May 2012✓
E-0082114event Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0069978event Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever21 Nov 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-0069011event More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War).1 Nov 2011✓

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