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E-0082357event Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082255event Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082236event WWII: East Africa: The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, is captured by Gener23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082187event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act23 Apr 2012–
E-0082162event Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082111event Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C23 Apr 2012–
E-0081441event Government soldiers in Lubumbashi, Zaire’s second largest city lay down their arms and join the cause of rebels advancing on th5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081412event Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081124event The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081099event In an interim report, the Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081061event The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Act 1 of 1999, comes into effect. It requires all State departments to adhere to norm30 Mar 2012✓
E-0070153event South Africa’s tour of the British Isles finishes on an upbeat note as Jake White’s experimental young side takes Scotland apar25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069875event Zacharias Wagenaer, successor of Jan van Riebeeck, writes to the Lords 17 suggesting that sixty-seven families be sent back to21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069668event It is announced that French doctors have made a major break-through, which may lead to the invention of a HIV/Aids vaccine.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069633event Governor Bruno von Schuckmann of German South-West Africa is succeeded by Dr Theodor Zeits, who occupied the post until 1915.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070551event WWII: South African armoured cars take part in the pursuit of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps as it retreats towards5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070398event It is announced that White, Coloured and Asian workers affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) have voted5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070394event Walter Sisulu, John Mavuso, Moses Kotane, Marks Ramitloa and Betty du Toit attend a Christmas party in aid of the high treason5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070354event Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, is released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was sentenced in25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070274event Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe25 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-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-0071131event Former President F.W. de Klerk, speaking on Robben Island off Cape Town at a commemoration of the role played by Mahatma Gandhi14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071062event Sir Laurens van der Post (90), SA born explorer, author and mentor of Britain’s Prince Charles, dies in Chelsea, England. The d9 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-0069080event At 4 p.m. a stone meteorite of 0,9kg makes a hole in a corrugated iron roof on the farm Hermitage, in Constantia, Cape, without1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073493event In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c31 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-0073758event Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg announces that the 1995-96 Budget deficit will be R30.1 billion or 6 per cent of G.D.P.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073673event The House of Assembly approves, by eighty-six votes to forty-three, a motion to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and31 Jan 2012✓

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