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E-0070026event General Jan Smuts, SA premier, makes a notable speech to members of the British parliament, suggesting that the responsibility21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070021event Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Grosskopf, author, newspaper editor and professor at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Bloe21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070019event Andries Pretorius is appointed Commandant-General of the Voortrekkers, to lead a commando two days later against the Zulu.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069970event Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069966event Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist guerrilla bases at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique, killing alleg21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069947event Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.  21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069926event The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069909event Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069892event The government decides to disband the Foreign Affairs Association, a front organisation founded by the former Department of Inf21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069891event It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069881event Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069879event Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first chairperson21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069876event Olof Martini Bergh (63), secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, dies in Cape Town.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069855event The first elections to the forty-five seats for elected members of the Transkei Legislative Assembly take place.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069850event Nadine Gordimer, SA author and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is born in Springs.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069708event George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, is born in Johannesburg.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069703event General Lucas Johannes Meyer, later president of the New Republic (Nieuwe Republiek) established on territory received as rewar11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069696event Ten MK members are killed when an alleged member of MK pulls a grenade at a party in Sebokeng, PWV.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069683event King Mohammed V calls for the "total and unconditional" withdrawal of US military bases, and French and Spanish troop11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069666event The National Arts Council (NAC) launches the National Craft Development Initiative as part of its National Development Strategy11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069658event Algeria’s military-installed president, Liamine Zeroual, is proclaimed winner of the November 16 election, boycotted by most ma11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069625event The ANC suspends national assembly chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing into sexual harassm11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069608event 4,000 Black postal workers have refused to give oaths of loyalty to Ian Smith’s government in Rhodesia.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069602event King Farouk, Egypt, demands the "total and immediate evacuation" of all British troops from the Suez Canal Zone.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069596event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Sprinkaansnek is fought, with General Philip Botha forcing a passage through the neck.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069577event European Union ambassadors approve a total arms embargo to punish Nigeria’s military regime for the execution of nine political11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070652event A freak storm, one of the worst in living memory, hits Johannesburg International Airport, damaging several passenger jets so b5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070644event Application in Venda of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transition to Democracy Proclamation No 26 commences, recognisin5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070544event Anglo-Boer War 2: President Paul Kruger of the ZAR and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession in the Netherlands.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070543event Thomas François Burgers (47), former state president of the ZAR (1872-1877), dies in poverty in Richmond, CC.5 Dec 2011✓

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