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E-0071900event Zulus attack Indians in Durban.  At least 137 people are killed and a thousand or more injured.  The government complains abo6 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-0071881event Forty-five (thirty-five?) ANC mourners are killed during an attack on a funeral vigil for an ANC member in Sebokeng.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071862event Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 1236 Jan 2012✓
E-0072431event A second series of meetings is held between South Africa and Mozambique in Pretoria and Maputo. Four working groups discuss sec16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073450event Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073438event Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073403event The police in Zimbabwe start a search for William Player (64), heir to the British John Payer Tobacco Company, who disappeared31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073393event The Citizen reveals that Miss Olivia Forsyth who arrived at the British Embassy in Luanda, Angola, seeking sanctuary from the A31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073335event The first 741 students enrol at the “Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit” (RAU).   Lectures start on the 13th February in a tempor31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073332event Adv. Anton Lubowski, Swapo member who allegedly spied for South Africa and who was later murdered in Windhoek, is born.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073316event Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz discovers that he has sailed past the southernmost point of Africa and puts ashore in the31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073272event The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073251event The official Commission of Inquiry into the media appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tables it31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073240event Egypt and Syria proclaims the union of their two countries in a state to be known as ‘The United Arab Republic’.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073194event Jimmy Kruger , minister of police, announces in the House of Assembly that new measures for the protection of political detaine31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073168event The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So27 Jan 2012–
E-0073164event Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073155event Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot27 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-0073107event A newspaper reports that the South African government told the World Court in a letter that it is prepared to hold a plebiscite27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073102event WW2: Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073057event Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air  and fo20 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-0073007event The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072991event General Idi Amin Dada takes power in Uganda by military coup while the existing president, Milton Obote, is at a Commonwealth m20 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-0072971event The former Minister of Information, Dr. Connie Mulder, resigns his seat in parliament at the insistence of the Prime Minister,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✓

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