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E-0082117event Gabriel François de Vos Hugo, judge president of the Northern Cape region and champion for the use of Afrikaans in Natal schoo23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082116event For the next month, until May 25, a comet known only as “The Great Comet of 1901’ is visible over most of SA.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081519event Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, a chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele born c. 1840, dies and is buried at Wallmannstal, north of5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081482event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081479event Health activists address the R13-million shortfall faced by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. By lau5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081460event Debarkation of the first British Settlers starts at Algoa Bay (now Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape, from where they are gra5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081230event The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081182event The first company to be indicted under the US Anti-Apartheid Act pleads guilty to importing four used jet-aircraft engines from30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081152event Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081001event At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081000event The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079857event The North Sea Jazz Festival (31 March – 1 April) starts in Cape Town. It is the first time a jazz festival on four simultaneo19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079817event The SA government seals off all borders with Transkei to prevent any further cross-border attacks from Transkei by the Pan-Afri19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070022event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The Battle of Enslin or Graspan takes place, with the burghers under General De la Rey and Commandant Lubbe21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069989event The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069954event Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069920event Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069915event Instructions are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069595event Comdt-Gen. Piet Joubert attacks Venda Chief Mpefu’s main kraal during the Mpefu War (also called Magato War). The sub-chiefs su11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070650event World Food Program warns the UN Security Council that a record 38 million people were at risk of starvation in Africa. The sout5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070631event Colin Mark de Sousa, who donned a SADF uniform and gained entry into the premises of the Wits Command to make a surveillance of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070609event Laban Nkete (36), member of the SA marathon team that competed in the IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Canada in 2001, is5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070257event Flames roar through the cruise ship Achille Lauro off Somalia. The ship, which was hijacked by PLO terrorists in 1985, sinks tw25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071231event Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071224event In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071163event Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the brave Danie Theron scout corps in Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071032event WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070933event Edries Burton, Santos soccer player who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Most Appearances of the Decade, is born in Heid9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070887event Anglo-Boer War 2: Winston Churchill climbs over the yard wall of the State Model School in Pretoria where he has been imprisone9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070881event On his last voyage of discovery in the Resolution and the Discovery, Capt. James Cook finds a group of islands, which he named9 Dec 2011✓

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