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E-0071316event Vasco Da Gama gives the name Terra do Natal to the coast around the Kei River. The name was later extended to cover the coast u14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071315event Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Lüderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namib coast of Sout14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071314event Christian Church chooses this day to observe the birth of Christ.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071313event Christmas Day.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071312event The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (C14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071311event Four people are killed in a pipe bomb explosion in a busy shopping centre in Worcester, Western Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071310event A female coelacanth, containing twenty-six near-term embryos, is caught off Pebane, Mozambique.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071309event Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K. Doe.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071308event Gazankulu: Social Pensions Amendment Act No 7 commences.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071307event Ex-Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071306event The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071305event Jean Max Friedrich (Johan) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in 1937, dies in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071304event SA signs agreement with Botswana relating to the establishment of a Botswana government labour representative in South Africa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071303event The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development leaves Malawi after a four-day visit during which cooperation between nati14 Dec 2011–
E-0071302event Gary Muller, SA tennis player, is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071301event Macassar Beach on False Bay, district Wynberg, is proclaimed a Coloured group area by the Group Areas Board.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071300event Guy Pierre Du Toit, S.A. sculptor, is born in Rustenburg, Transvaal.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071299event British run Tripolitania and Cyrenaica join with French administered Fezzan to form the newly independent Libya.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071298event Libya declares its independence as a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris I. It is the first country to achi14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071297event In a South Africa vs Queensland cricket match, Don Bradman scores 233 runs in 191 minutes for Queensland. It includes 28 fours14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071296event Grimmett takes 9-180 for South Africa as Queensland make 430.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071295event At Kommetjie, near Cape Town, 103 whales are washed ashore.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071294event Ronald Draper, cricketer (South African batsman vs Australia 1949-50), is born.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071293event Richard John Maponya, leading race-horse breeder and businessperson, is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (no14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071292event Wilton Z. Mkwayi, South African ANC activist and former Robben Island prisoner, is born near Middledrift in the Ciskei.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071291event Anwar Al Sadat, president of Egypt (1970-81), is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, forty miles north of Cairo. He achieved peace with Isr14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071289event German South West Africa abolishes slavery of young children.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0075584event Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands1 Mar 2012✓
E-0075583event Saxophone player, Bobby Hendricks, dies in Cape Town1 Mar 2012✓
E-0075581event British racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami1 Mar 2012✓

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