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E-0070455event Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070454event The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070449event President Nelson Mandela arrives in the United Arabian Emirates as guest of honour at the annual conference of Arabian countrie5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070423event Britain grants self-government to the Transvaal Colony in South Africa. Several sources state that the Orange River Colony was5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070397event A cabinet minister restates the government’s policy for the Coloured people. Any policy, or lack thereof, which can lead to int5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070336event The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (as amended), to which SA is a party, is signed in Washington, USA.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070302event SA signs an agreement with the USA regarding co-operation in the development, building, installation and operation of an integr25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070251event The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park announce a consumer boycott of Boksburg. The boycott by Coloured and Black resid25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070228event Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071228event Andries Hendrik Potgieter establishes the town now known as Potchefstroom, about 10 km from where the centre city now is.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071218event The lengthy trial of nine Black nationalist student leaders ends. They are found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced t14 Dec 2011–
E-0071205event Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071130event The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 3-4 against Uruguay in the Confederations Cup, with Lucas Radebe scoring his first int14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071123event Up to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland. The Swaziland Police Commissioner confirms the arrests a14 Dec 2011–
E-0071119event The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching14 Dec 2011–
E-0071060event Orlando Pirates becomes the first Southern African soccer team to win the African League of Champions, beating Ivory Coast’s AS9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071054event The South African Institute of Race Relations calls for judicial inquiries into the death of detainees in police custody, backe9 Dec 2011–
E-0070992event Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed by the Transvaal section of the Supreme Court. He must serve his six year prison sentence.9 Dec 2011–
E-0070962event The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070944event Prisoner Nelson Mandela has the first of three meetings with State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future SA.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070907event The ANC confirms it has forwarded 300 applications from its members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and expects to s9 Dec 2011–
E-0070905event Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia9 Dec 2011–
E-0070902event The interim state Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, created on 1 June 1979, returns to colonial status and becomes the colony of Zimbabwe-Rhod9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070886event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Magersfontein continues. At about midday the British retire to their camp at Modder River.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070862event Moroccan officials in El Aiun proclaim Morocco’s annexation of the Spanish Sahara as some 5 000 Moroccan troops march into the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070846event George VI becomes King of England following the abdication of Edward VIII. The Royal family visited South Africa in 1947.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070816event Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the9 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-0069055event After a meeting between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom1 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✓

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