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E-0070299event Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro and his wife Florence Barbara are gunned down in their courtyard. Policemen A.J.M. Joubert, P.J. Verster25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070272event The British government officially abolishes slavery in the Cape Colony, but the slaves are apprenticed for four years to their25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070237event The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, supported by In25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070229event Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070183event Four White South Africans are killed and seventeen injured when armed APLA guerrillas  storm into a golf club in King William’25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071215event The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbours opens in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the S14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071205event Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071145event Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071123event Up to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland. The Swaziland Police Commissioner confirms the arrests a14 Dec 2011–
E-0071119event The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching14 Dec 2011–
R-0071081archive TRC Report interview with Zahrah Narkedien, a former Umkhonto we Sizwe cadre who was confined in a basement for seven months (Video)12 Dec 2011–
E-0071056event Five anti-apartheid leaders, imprisoned in 1988 for political activities, are freed from Robben Island. Among them are the gen9 Dec 2011–
E-0071054event The South African Institute of Race Relations calls for judicial inquiries into the death of detainees in police custody, backe9 Dec 2011–
E-0071021event A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each other’s rights in N9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071004event Mercenary coup in Comoros gives up power after twenty-one days. The mercenary leader and ex-presidential bodyguard, Bob Denard,9 Dec 2011–
E-0070984event The Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court. One is reprieved by Lord Charles Somerset, the other, Cornel9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070911event A newspaper reports in Mbabane that Swaziland’s King Mswati III has bought himself a luxury sedan worth about R3.5m while his d9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070897event A police patrol, out to investigate an assassination attempt in the Transkei, are attacked by a gang of about sixty Poqo member9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070862event Moroccan officials in El Aiun proclaim Morocco’s annexation of the Spanish Sahara as some 5 000 Moroccan troops march into the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070856event Chief Albert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Lecture in Oslo after receiving the Peace Prize the previous day. The government issued9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070849event Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake9 Dec 2011✓
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-0070835event Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070826event Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070800event Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea9 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-0069075event Jan Eloff, son-in-law of President Paul Kruger, is appointed as commissioner of Johannesburg, replacing Carl von Brandis, who w1 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-0069034event A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069010event Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric1 Nov 2011✓

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