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E-0073005event The first Oscar nomination for a South African film, Yesterday, a drama about a woman in a rural village who discovers she is H20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072969event Premier  John Vorster decrees that in the future the ‘homelands’ will be allowed to accept direct foreign financial aid.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072955event Lugard, with Maxim gun, helps pro-British Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072925event Justice M. Stegmann records an open finding in the inquest into the murder of Witwatersrand University academic Dr David Webste20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071837event Chief Buthelezi rejects the President’s call to resume participation in the constitution-making process and returns to the Cons6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071783event A United States military gunship launches air raids against hideouts of prominent members of the al-Qaeda network in southern S6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071778event A cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing 255 people by the official count. The unofficial death6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071643event Twenty people drown when a strong north-westerly gale breaks the Frances Spaight loose from her anchors in Table Bay.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071631event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071615event Mass celebration takes place in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi, following the arrest of former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071604event The British Foreign Minister, James Callaghan, arrives in Port Elizabeth for a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister John Vors14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071601event Lawrence George Green, author of numerous travel books, is born in Kimberley. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071592event At its annual conference in Eshowe, Natal, the Labour Party overwhelmingly adopts a resolution stating that it seeks to represe14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071564event Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071558event English archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the grave of Tutankamen, Egyptian king who died 3 276 years ago. In some sources14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071556event John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071549event Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071516event President David Dacko of the Central African Republic is ousted in a military coup by army commander Jean-Bédel Bokassa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071498event Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071492event Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, Austri14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071491event President Thabo Mbeki joins several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071478event The Nigerian civil government of President Shehu Shagari is overthrown in a fourth, bloodless, military coup led by Major-Gener14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071398event Molly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner widely respected by Blacks, is killed in a car accident near Hu14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071345event Hendrik Swellengrebel (60), only governor of the Cape who was born at the Cape, dies in Utrecht, the Netherlands.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071344event Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
R-0104420archive Congress Resister 1983 - 198922 Feb 2016–
E-0149118event CI and SACC offices are raided22 Aug 2019–
B-0068162biography King Mzilikazi1790-1868–
R-0120417archive Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 September, Volume 9 and Volume 10 22 Feb 2016–
E-0011525event Dr Louis Luyt is born16 Mar 2011–

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