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E-0071570event Cave paintings, dated 6 000 BC, are discovered in the Uweinat Mountains, Egypt.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071569event Anton Ackerman (59), South African actor, dies.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071568event The state president-elect, Dr. Theophilus Ebenaeser (Eben) Dönges, dies after a long illness.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071567event Hamanth Chotoo Kasan, general manager, Scientific Services, Rand Water, is born in Durban.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071566event Robert Hector Catterall (60), SA cricket player in twenty-four test matches (1922-1933), dies in Kempton Park.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071565event Lindsay Kline takes a hat trick vs. South Africa in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071564event Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071563event Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal.   He was detained during the 1970s. Dur14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071562event Ismail Mahomed Ayob, attorney, notary, economist and recipient of various awards, is born in Mafeking (now Mafikeng).14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071561event World War 2: North Africa. Australian troops take 5,000 prisoners during a major assault on Italian forces at Bardia.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071560event Ethiopia asks League of Nations to guarantee peace with Italy.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071559event Henry Mutile Fazzie, vice-president, Eastern Cape Region of the United Democratic Front, 1983, and member of the Port Elizabeth14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071558event English archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the grave of Tutankamen, Egyptian king who died 3 276 years ago. In some sources14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071557event Emperor Wilhelm of Germany congratulates President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic)on14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071556event John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071555event B.H. Darnell and R.W. Murray found The Cape Argus in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071554event The weekly newspaper Het Volksblad is published in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071553event James Archbell, retired missionary, prints the first edition of the weekly newspaper The Natal Independent and General Advertis14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071552event Wilhelmina ten Damme, wife of Governor Hendrik Swellengrebel, dies at the age of forty. Swellendam was named in honour of them.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071551event Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique’s western border, killing at least twenty-two people and injuring seventy-14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071550event Major General Bantu Holomisa, who became head of a military state in Transkei after a coup in December 1987, lifts martial law14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071549event Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071548event Major-General Muhammadu Buhari is declared Head of State in Nigeria, following a military coup.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071547event Several ANC members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. A further group of seventeen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071546event Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 1914 Dec 2011✓
E-0071545event Second heart transplant in South Africa is performed by Dr Chris Barnard on Dr Philip Blaiberg. He lived one year and seven mon14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071544event Francois Pienaar, former Springbok captain, is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071542event Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the National Party government’s14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071541event The SA. rugby team beats England on Twickenham 7-0.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071540event South Africa plays for the first time on the Wanderers in a cricket test against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and wins wit14 Dec 2011✓

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