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E-0081523event Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb, SA cricket player in five test matches, is born in East London.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0070174event Eddie Dunn, SA ambassador in El Salvador, is kidnapped and later murdered by a leftist terrorist group.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0069932event Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg.21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069679event Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, SA painter and mother of actress Jana Celliers, is born in Rustenburg, Tvl.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069623event The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to impose an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069610event Siamese twins are separated in Cape Town, the first successful operation of that kind in SA.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070503event The test between the SA rugby team and England in London ends in a tie with 3 each.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070298event Greg Page knocks out SA Gerrie Coetzee in eight rounds for the WBA heavyweight boxing title.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070287event SA, together with eleven other countries, signs the Antarctic Treaty, proclaiming it a conservation area, in Washington.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070207event The Automobile Association of SA (AA) takes over the Royal Automobile Club (RAC), founded in 1901.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071137event The first experimental radio broadcast in SA takes place in Johannesburg by the Western Electric Company.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071102event SA cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0070939event Peter Mathebula, flyweight of SA, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Association (WBA).9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070935event South Africa signs treaty with Australia concerning an international observer scheme for land based whaling stations.9 Dec 2011–
E-0070913event An ordinance is issued whereby Dutch is allowed in courts in the Cape next to English.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0068186event The DG for Transport, Mr. A.B. Eksteen, outlines plans for a marine line along the SA coast15 Sep 2011✓
E-0068182event The condition of Edwin Smith, the youngest baby in SA to undergo open-heart surgery, improves14 Sep 2011✓
E-0069073event The first railway line between two towns in SA, Cape Town and Wellington is officially opened.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069053event Arnold Taylor, SA bantamweight champion, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Association (WBA).1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073714event Nationalist guerrillas in Rhodesia shoot down an Air Rhodesia airliner with a missile, killing fifty-nine people.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073649event Anna Cloete (82), veteran actress and wife of James Norval, famous in SA acting circles, dies.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073565event Daniel Lindley, an American Presbyterian clergyman, is formally ordained as minister of the Voortrekkers’ Pietermaritzburg cong31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072892event The SA central government officially recognises the military administration of Transkei under General Holomisa and Transkei’s s20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072751event The Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre.16 Jan 2012✓
E-0072702event SA joins the World Meteorological Organization, created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment  of meteo16 Jan 2012✓
E-0073369event Isaac Daniël Buys, SA cricket player in one test, is born in Somerset East, eastern Cape.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073367event Rolland Beaumont, SA cricket player in five test matches (1912-1914), is born in Newcastle, Natal.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073149event In a direct defiance to South Africa’s patent laws, Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins27 Jan 2012✓
E-0073101event Gen. J.C. Smuts and Gen. Louis Botha establish “Het Volk” (The People), an Afrikaner political organisation.27 Jan 2012✓
E-0071444event Four youths are killed in an Apla attack on the Heidelberg Tavern In Observatory, Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓

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