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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✓
E-0070969event The General Assembly declares that the South African regime has "no right to represent the people of South Africa" an9 Dec 2011–
E-0070962event The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070944event Prisoner Nelson Mandela has the first of three meetings with State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future SA.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070902event The interim state Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, created on 1 June 1979, returns to colonial status and becomes the colony of Zimbabwe-Rhod9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070897event A police patrol, out to investigate an assassination attempt in the Transkei, are attacked by a gang of about sixty Poqo member9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070886event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Magersfontein continues. At about midday the British retire to their camp at Modder River.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070819event American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070816event Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070810event It is announced that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council has accepted a five-year plan designed to give South Africa9 Dec 2011✓
R-0070784archive Labour Input to the Presidential Job Summit presented on behalf of COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU by John Gomomo, COSATU President9 Dec 2011–

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