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E-0070215event The H F Verwoerd Dam in the Orange Free State has been renamed the Gariep Dam with immediate effect, Water Affairs and Forestry25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070212event The NP retains three House of Assembly seats in by-elections, with reduced majorities, losing ground to right-wing parties oppo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070187event Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila’s soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071223event Participants in CODESA decide to set up five working groups, which are to report to a second CODESA plenary session before the14 Dec 2011–
E-0071189event Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071153event Bertie Reed (63), for many years a Springbok and international sailing legend and one of the most-popular skippers in single-ha14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071027event The Women’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein, to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during Anglo-Boer War 2, ma9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071014event In the Battle of Blood River, a Voortrekker commando of 470 men, under leadership of Andries Pretorius, is attacked at Ncome Ri9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070986event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under General Redvers Buller make a frontal attack in the Battle of Colenso aimed at relieving th9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070967event A move to expel South Africa from UNCTAD (The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) is defeated in the United Nat9 Dec 2011–
E-0070943event Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of negotiations under US mediation for a settlement in South West Africa by sig9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070820event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070817event The Committee of Artists of the World against Apartheid is established in Paris with the support of the Special Committee again9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070813event The Minister of Community Development relaxes the Group Areas Act permit system and announces that Blacks will in future be adm9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070801event Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069082event British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the grave of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Tombs1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069049event Britain and France agree to accept a Middle East cease-fire in the Suez War if UN forces can keep the peace.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069042event Forces of the British South Africa Company force Matabele King Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to flee his Great Place in Bulawayo1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073503event Daniel Ferdinand (Danie) Bosman, pioneer and composer of light Afrikaans music, is born. He died on 27 May 1946, in Muizenberg,31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073494event Paul Roux, preacher and teacher of the French Huguenot community at Drakenstein after the Rev. Pierre Simond had left in 1702,31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073491event The African Union says the military in Togo has conducted a virtual coup by ignoring the constitution and appointing the son of31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073465event Prof. Willem Sybrand Logeman (81), important role player in the founding of the library of the University of Cape Town, dies.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073454event Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071288event Jean van der Poel, eminent historian and teacher who researched on the life of General Smuts, is born in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073784event Eight Army officers are paraded by President Samora Machel at a mass rally in Maputo and are accused of treason and complicity31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073764event Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire suspected of being behind the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, is reporte31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073695event The Dutch East India Company issues an order that the statutes of India are to be followed strictly in the Cape.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073675event A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investig31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073668event The defence minister, J.J. Fouché, announces in the House of Assembly that he intends to increase the strength of the pe31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073659event Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor31 Jan 2012✓

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