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E-0070613event Britain seizes the islands of Reunion and Mauritius from French control.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070612event Sir Andrew Smith, explorer and founder of the museum now known as the South African Museum, is born in Roxburgshire, England.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070611event James Read, missionary of the London Missionary Society who clashed repeatedly with the authorities and colonists, is born in A5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070610event International Day of Disabled Persons.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070609event Laban Nkete (36), member of the SA marathon team that competed in the IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Canada in 2001, is5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070608event SA actress and musician Sophie Mgcina dies due to heart failure.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070607event Former first-lady of SA and ex-wife of FW de Klerk, Marike de Klerk, is found murdered at her home in Cape Town.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070606event Barbara da Silva (48), second wife of Dr Chris Barnard, dies in Cape Town of breast cancer.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070605event Suzette van der Merwe, former Miss South Africa, marries Owen Goss in Mulders Drift, near Krugersdorp.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070604event Taiwanese Foreign Minister John Chang Hsiaoyen visits South Africa and holds talks with President Mandela. The President insis5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070603event The Constitutional Court (CC) approves the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.5 Dec 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-0070601event President George Bush orders about 28,000 US troops to Somalia to block warring Somali gangs from intercepting food shipments.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070600event Cabinet is reshuffled, and the head of the mining house Gencor, Derek Keys, is appointed Minister of Trade and Industry.  5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070599event Defence Amendment Act, dealing mainly with various ways of combating terrorism, commences.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070598event Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070597event Bishop Desmond Tutu, addressing a United States House of Representatives subcommittee, describes the policy of constructive eng5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070596event The Star quotes the Lesotho foreign minister, Mr Mooki Molapo, as having said that at a meeting he had with the minister of for5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070595event Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070594event Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070593event Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime Minister announces res5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070592event The Defence Minister denies that South Africa has sent troops to Malawi to quell the security threat on Malawi’s southern borde5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070591event President Bokassa of the Central African Republic proclaims himself Emperor of the Central African Empire.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070590event The Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States "to cease forthwith the sale and shipment of equipmen5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070589event North Rhodesia’s first African-dominated government is formed under Kenneth Kaunda.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070588event Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the United Nations (UN).5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070587event Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast becomes autonomous within the French Community.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070586event Niger becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community. The republic adopted a constitution in 1959 but the next year5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070585event Ghanaian government breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070584event Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of eight dictionaries and three grammar books, is born in Aberdeen, CP.5 Dec 2011✓

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