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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✓
E-0069008event Ras (Duke) Tafari is crowned as Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, after the death of Empress Zaudito (Zewditu).1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073496event Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071276event Gladstone Sewela, former Mandela United Football Club member, is found near Zeerust hanging from a tree the day of his release14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071261event General Montgomery, commander of the Allied forces in North Africa, is advised that he will be appointed commandant for D-day.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073789event Prof. Johan Heyns, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and participant in a panel discussion filmed by an American tel31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073787event In response to a question in parliament, the minister of education and development aid, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, said that 917 school31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073777event Nationalists are stunned by the announcement of seven points according to which Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog is willing to cooperate wit31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073679event A call for a thirty-minute work stoppage, in protest against the death of Dr. Aggett, is supported by virtually all independent31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073600event Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073588event South Africa is to make its own missiles. Kentron (Pty) Ltd, a newly formed subsidiary of ARMSCOR (the South African Armaments31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072906event Cetewayo’s impis wipe out British troops at Isandhlwana in one of the worst disasters in British military history, stabbing 12720 Jan 2012✓
E-0072767event British troops under Lord Chelmsford pitch their camp on the slopes of Isandhlawana, where Zulu warriors attack them two days l16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072708event Percy Qoboza, well-known anti-apartheid journalist and editor of The World newspaper, dies in Johannesburg on his fiftieth birt16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072706event In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), eight ANC members are executed after being convicted on the charge of urban ter16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071915event The British government, in a change of policy, opens its doors to consultations with ANC leaders on a solution for South Africa6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071883event Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073444event Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073311event People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec31 Jan 2012–
E-0073285event The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073204event President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073124event In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073036event Dr H.F. Verwoerd rejects ‘White leadership with justice’ and announces the dawn of a new era that would end discrimination in S20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072977event President F.W. de Klerk opens parliament and suggests a referendum in which the vote of each race group be counted separately.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072954event Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071789event Gen. Johannes (Jan) Gerhardus Celliers (70), initiator of the method to fire in full pursuit during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071671event Richard Ishmail, former ANC MK and managing director of Big Issue, a publication for the homeless, is accosted by a burglar and14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071630event Donald Woods, banned editor of the Daily Dispatch (East London) reaches Britain with his family, having fled South Africa via L14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071532event Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrive at Lanseria airport on board a rescue flight from Bangkok14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071389event Albert Kimmerling, a visiting Frenchman, is the first person to fly in SA. He reaches a height of 6m at East London.14 Dec 2011✓

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