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E-0069665event The United Nations urges Rwanda to co-operate with an international tribunal, after the release of genocide suspect Jean-Bosco11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069641event Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, announces in the House of Commons that the British government has decided to impose11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069591event Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069554event SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death.   The sentence was later11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070637event Elections to the country’s twenty-nine new Black local authorities, over the previous ten days, are met with demonstrations and5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070628event The Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, announces a reshuffle of senior defence force posts to increase the efficiency of the coun5 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-0070598event Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where5 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-0070577event Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were5 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-0070486event Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070479event State President Vorster opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070444event The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are5 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-0070401event The Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by5 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-0070272event The British government officially abolishes slavery in the Cape Colony, but the slaves are apprenticed for four years to their25 Nov 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-0071225event Nigeria’s deputy head of state, Lieut. Gen. Oladipo Diya, and eleven others are arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow G14 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-0071196event The General Assembly terminated the mandate of the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petrol14 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-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-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-0071007event SA signs agreement with Namibia relating to the administration of the judicial system after the incorporation of Walvis Bay int9 Dec 2011–
E-0070976event Balancing bundles of food and clothing on their heads, Rwandan refugees who previously refused to return home begin re-entering9 Dec 2011✓

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