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E-0088870event The International Convention with Respect to Laws and Customs of War by Land is signed at The Hague, the Netherlands.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088822event The undeclared Korean War ends, after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists against the United Na20 Jul 2012✓
R-0088133archive Resolution on the War. Adopted by the National Executive Com­mittees of the AAC and the ANC, July 7,194011 Jul 2012–
E-0074419event An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead with Robert Salmond as captain, carrying reinforcements for the 8th Frontier War, runs17 Feb 2012✓
E-0074016event Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. Cuban intervention in the Angolan war started du10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079616event Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies16 Mar 2012✓
E-0092272event A year-old baby girl, Khensani Mitilene, is shot dead on her mother’s back when "a war" breaks out in the Johannesbur27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091774event South Africa signs treaty with Japan on certain portions of land granted to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Yokohama.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090468event World War 2: The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Bat14 Aug 2012✓
E-0089854event World War 2: East Africa. The Italian invasion of British Somaliland, which began on August 4, is complete. The Royal Navy succ10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089726event WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090754event The German Consulate in Cape Town packs up after South Africa’s official declaration of war on Germany the previous day.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0081836event Rhodesia gains independence after ninety years as a British colony, taking the new name Zimbabwe. The 1972-1979 war of independ13 Apr 2012✓
E-0083189event Thousands of Liberian war refugees, many ill after a week at sea, are refused admission to the Ghanaian port of Takoradi.11 May 2012✓
E-0083155event Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor11 May 2012✓
E-0082343event The SA 6th Division crosses Brenta River and is then redirected to Milan in Italy in World War II.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081439event Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst5 Apr 2012✓
E-0069980event Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069917event World War 1: North Africa: German L59 Zeppelin starts flight from Bulgaria to Khartoum carrying much needed supplies to General21 Nov 2011✓
E-0073572event The Cape Corps, consisting of thirty-two officers and 1022 soldiers, leaves for East Africa during the First World War.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071589event The conference at Aburi, Ghana (4-5 January), fails to prevent the secession of Biafra from Nigeria and the ensuing civil war.14 Dec 2011✓
P-0013990place uMnambithi was called Ladysmith16 Mar 2011✓
E-0011203event British reinforcements arrive at Ladysmith16 Mar 2011✓
E-0083945event Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.25 May 2012✓
E-0011232event Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps16 Mar 2011✓
E-0149020event South African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa's first elected woman president in post-war elections22 Aug 2019–
P-0013911place Mahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng16 Mar 2011✓
B-0068169biography Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo1917-1957–
B-0068742biography Cecil Williams1906-1979–
P-0065670place Naval Hill14 Jul 2011✓

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