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E-0073595event It is announced that a special party congress has been called for in Bloemfontein at Easter by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073577event Lt. Tommy Rose arrives in Cape Town from England after a flight that lasted three days, seventeen hours and thirty-eight minute31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073573event General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073561event Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain nor do crayfish and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073518event Cedric Mayson, former Methodist Minister, banned for five years in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appears before the Pr31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073506event Sen. Tommy Boydell, member of the Labour Party and ex-minister in the coalition cabinet of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, assaults J.S. M31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072916event The results of an informal poll amongst White sportsmen show that of 101 sportsmen questioned, seventy-nine were in favour of m20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072912event Rescue attempts are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072784event Chief Leabua Jonathan of Lesotho, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is deposed of in a bloodless military coup led by Major-General Ju16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072768event Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Tabanyama, Natal front, a group of Indian stretcher bearers, among whom the young Durban att16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072764event Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072734event Anton Rupert, industrial giant of South Africa and founder of the Rembrandt group, dies at the age of 89 in Stellenbosch.16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072712event Mandela declares in Lusaka that the ANC will take power by force if it fails to reach agreement with the government.16 Jan 2012✓
E-0071926event Mark Thatcher incurs a fine of R3-million and is given a four-year suspended prison term after pleading guilty in a Cape Town c6 Jan 2012✓
E-0072424event Gary Player condemns Government’s decision not to allow the Indian golfer of Natal, Papwa Sewgolum permission to play in the 1916 Jan 2012✓
E-0073432event Police announce the arrest of a number of Whites in connection with sabotage acts for which the Wit Kommando has claimed respon31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073414event Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073407event Top finance officials from seven of the world’s richest countries (the G7 countries), open a two-day meeting in London that, wh31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073342event Gen. Tafari Banti (Teferi Benti), Ethiopia’s chief of state, is killed in gun battle that breaks out around Addis Ababa headqua31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073333event Macmillan, prime minister of Britain, delivers his ‘wind of change’ speech to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape Town31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073325event The first meeting of the League of Nations takes place in Paris, with Pres. Woodrow Wilson of the USA as chairman.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073313event The Lusa news agency reports that torrential rains in northern Angola have damaged at least two bridges, knocked out power and31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073301event The National Party launches a ‘core values’ document in Pretoria. On the same day it is reported that the Provincial Affairs an31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073270event Bosman de Ravelli (Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman), concert pianist and composer of the first Afrikaans art song in 1908, is born.  H31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073267event The Piet Retief Manifesto, which sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony, is published in English31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073254event Five men are burned to death in Mdantsane, Ciskei. Mr M. Vellum escapes after already set alight with the five who died.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073242event Cassim Mahomed Lakhi is appointed lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University College for Indians (now Unive31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073222event Hans Anton Aschenborn, German painter and graphic artist who stayed for several years in Namibia and South Africa and who illus31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073220event David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073205event According to figures from the South African Police, the number of unrest-related deaths in Natal since 1 September 1987 up to t31 Jan 2012✓

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