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E-0071234event Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071214event A three-month campaign to register Coloured voters ends with only approximately half of the total of 700,000 qualified voters r14 Dec 2011–
E-0071182event Prof. J.L.B. Smith receives a cable from Captain Eric Hunt, stating that he has a coelacanth at the Comoro Islands. Prime Minis14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071145event Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071129event The United Nations (UN) General Assembly appoints Kofi Annan of Ghana to a five-year term as secretary-general, beginning 1 Jan14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071056event Five anti-apartheid leaders, imprisoned in 1988 for political activities, are freed from Robben Island. Among them are the gen9 Dec 2011–
E-0071043event Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071021event A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each other’s rights in N9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071004event Mercenary coup in Comoros gives up power after twenty-one days. The mercenary leader and ex-presidential bodyguard, Bob Denard,9 Dec 2011–
E-0070960event Josef Johannes (Jopie) Fourie, scout and dispatch-rider during Anglo-Boer War 2, and rebel commando leader during the 1914 Rebe9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070930event Cheryl Ellen Gillwald, Deputy Minister of Correctional Services of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070897event A police patrol, out to investigate an assassination attempt in the Transkei, are attacked by a gang of about sixty Poqo member9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070854event Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070835event Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070826event Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070819event American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070810event It is announced that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council has accepted a five-year plan designed to give South Africa9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070800event Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070797event The first Nobel prizes are awarded.  Several South Africans, inter alia, Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela and W.A. de Klerk were9 Dec 2011✓
R-0070784archive Labour Input to the Presidential Job Summit presented on behalf of COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU by John Gomomo, COSATU President9 Dec 2011–
E-0069041event The first Black SA newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion), is published in King William’s Town with Tengo Jabavu as editor1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069037event The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069025event The government announces a plan to allow White and Black businessmen to form partnerships as part of a strategy to draw Blacks1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069010event Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069008event Ras (Duke) Tafari is crowned as Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, after the death of Empress Zaudito (Zewditu).1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073496event Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073490event Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic priest accused of participating in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsi by ethnic Hutu in Rwanda, sur31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073477event In reply to the opposition’s motion Prime Minister P.W. Botha offers to resign if opposition politicians can show that either h31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071276event Gladstone Sewela, former Mandela United Football Club member, is found near Zeerust hanging from a tree the day of his release14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071261event General Montgomery, commander of the Allied forces in North Africa, is advised that he will be appointed commandant for D-day.14 Dec 2011✓

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