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E-0081118event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081042event Margaret Thatcher opens a British Liaison Office in Namibia. It is hoped that this will become the British embassy once indepen30 Mar 2012✓
E-0079860event Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079787event The African National Congress (ANC) calls off a peace rally to be held with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for April 2 i19 Mar 2012–
E-0079786event The African National Congress (ANC) calls off a peace rally to be held with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for April 2 i19 Mar 2012✓
E-0079757event Brett Macleod, South Africa’s super motorbike champion, is killed by on-rushing racers when he fell on the Kyalami racecourse.19 Mar 2012✓
E-0070168event The United Nations’ General Assembly adopts an eight nation resolution, by seventy-two votes to two, with twenty-seven abstenti25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070154event An argument between a man and his stepson about today’s rugby Test in which the Springboks beat Scotland, ends tragically when25 Nov 2011–
E-0070119event Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070034event Forty-five mercenaries from South Africa under Colonel Mike Hoare land in Seychelles, attack the airport and cause heavy damage21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069942event Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069893event Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069887event It is officially announced on Eric Louw’s seventy-third birthday that the South African Ambassador in London, Dr. Hilgard Mulle21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069702event Energy specialist and free-lance reporter Andrew Kennedy reports that the Koeberg Nuclear plant is quite safe despite power cut11 Nov 2011–
E-0069693event The three Zimbabwean intelligence officers standing trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house in Bulawayo are sentenced to death.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069685event Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069643event The Democratic Party officially comes into being at a one-day conference in Johannesburg attended by some 200 delegates from th11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070602event The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopt terms for a truce to end a conflict killing an estimated 1,05 Dec 2011✓
E-0070570event General Holomisa announces that he is abandoning a Supreme Court action aimed at forcing the ANC to reinstate him as a member a5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070521event The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070225event The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070223event Schalk Burger, flank forward AJ Venter, centre Gcobani Bobo and uncapped winger, Jongikhaya Nokwe are released to play for the25 Nov 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-0071056event Five anti-apartheid leaders, imprisoned in 1988 for political activities, are freed from Robben Island. Among them are the gen9 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-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-0070797event The first Nobel prizes are awarded.  Several South Africans, inter alia, Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela and W.A. de Klerk were9 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✓

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