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E-0070846event George VI becomes King of England following the abdication of Edward VIII. The Royal family visited South Africa in 1947.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070816event Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070796event Anglo-Boer War 2: British General Gatacre is defeated in the Battle at Stormberg Junction by the Republican forces under Chief9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069055event After a meeting between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069046event In Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel begin a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the all1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073485event National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana, says that the NPKF will probably not be ready to keep the pea31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073479event The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073456event At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071285event Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071281event The three ships, Drommedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop, carrying Jan van Riebeeck and his party, leave Texel, the Netherlands, on14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071271event Four Black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, are banned on a technicality on the same day14 Dec 2011–
E-0071266event President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a leading exponent of Pan-Africanism, orders the release of the last of his political prisone14 Dec 2011✓
R-0113707archive Meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the United States Ambassador, Mr Herman Nickel: Cape Town, 27 May 1985 22 Feb 2016–
R-0108125archive Press statement issued by the National Union of Namibian Workers [and] the Congress of South African Trade Unions, 6 April 198922 Feb 2016–
E-0073693event President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of31 Jan 2012–
E-0073664event During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians calls on the Prime31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073656event The Nepaul, a British ship of 462 ton, runs aground while leaving Swartvlei Bay on the Cape coast.   Three sailors die.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073629event Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073628event The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073607event Commandant-General M.W. Pretorius installs Mpande as King of the Zulus after the power of Mpande’s brother, Dingane, is broken31 Jan 2012✓
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-0073562event The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i31 Jan 2012–
E-0073549event The Prime Minister warns that the government will not hesitate to intervene, should campaigns by City Councils led by Johannesb31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073532event Martin Schönteich, senior legal official at the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York, says at the opening of a nati31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073514event The Prime Minister announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the ‘homelands’ to speed up econ31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072918event At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072769event Herero Revolt: A repair team begins to repair the destroyed state railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072740event General J.B.M. Hertzog, as leader of the Opposition, announces he will introduce a motion calling on the Union of South Africa16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072735event The Cape becomes British territory for the second time, when conditions of surrender at Blaauberg (11 days previously), is conf16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072690event The Sand River Convention, under which Britain renounces all claims to authority beyond the Vaal River, is signed.  This lays16 Jan 2012✓

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