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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✓
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-0073488event Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073477event In reply to the opposition’s motion Prime Minister P.W. Botha offers to resign if opposition politicians can show that either h31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071285event Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op14 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-0073755event Angolan government troops break into Unita rebel-held highlands in an attempt to open a supply corridor to the embattled city o31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073693event President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of31 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-0073666event Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New Brighton,31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073664event During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians calls on the Prime31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073643event Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released unconditionally from the Victor Verster prison in Paarl at 331 Jan 2012✓
E-0073632event The United Nations Secretary-General, Dr. Waldheim, announces in New York that he has received a formal invitation to visit Sou31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073599event Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073581event Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly co31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073532event Martin Schönteich, senior legal official at the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York, says at the opening of a nati31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073514event The Prime Minister announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the ‘homelands’ to speed up econ31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073512event Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072761event The Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group involved in the country’s 19-year-old c16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072759event At least twenty-two people are killed and 4000 are rendered homeless by a devastating storm in Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape.16 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-0071925event Barney Cohen (53), former Drum magazine editor and chief executive officer of Urban Brew studios, dies in Johannesburg while un6 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✓

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