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E-0070147event According to press reports, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) accused the ANC of being "guilty of deceit and dup25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070102event Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070017event Vasco da Gama, on his way to the East, lands near present Mossel Bay, staying for a week.   Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afri21 Nov 2011✓
E-0070002event A former theology student, Carl Niehaus, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison for high treason in the Rand Supreme Court. Hi21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069906event The Sunday Independent reports that at least 1,2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa during the past three years, bri21 Nov 2011✓
E-0069668event It is announced that French doctors have made a major break-through, which may lead to the invention of a HIV/Aids vaccine.11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069646event The P.K. le Roux Dam (now Vanderkloof Dam), an integral part of the Orange River development project to provide electric power,11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069620event Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069585event In a move set to keep SA and Africa on the European Union’s (EU’s) radar screen, President Thabo Mbeki leads a top delegation o11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070582event A proclamation by Commander R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070536event News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070497event Giriyondo border post opens. Tourists can now travel through the Kruger National Park to Mozambique. The border post is part of5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070467event A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070426event Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070398event It is announced that White, Coloured and Asian workers affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) have voted5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070365event The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrates its 18th anniversary with a goal to become the first union forma25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070354event Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, is released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was sentenced in25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070342event The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070312event South Africa officially starts celebrating World Aids Day, to be marked on the first of December each year, when the Department25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070306event Cabinet decides to replace the SAAF trainer Harvards by the Swiss-made Pilatus PC-7 MK2. The joint venture will include twelve25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070268event News 24 announces that Chiliboy Ralepelle (real first name Mahlatse)will become the first Black player to lead the Springbok ru25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070212event The NP retains three House of Assembly seats in by-elections, with reduced majorities, losing ground to right-wing parties oppo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071183event A re-organisation of the South African Defence Force replaces the General Staff with a body to be known as the ‘Supreme Command14 Dec 2011–
E-0071164event General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071030event Johannes Nkosi is seriously injured by police during a campaign to burn passbooks. He dies on the 19th. Three other activists a9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071027event The Women’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein, to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during Anglo-Boer War 2, ma9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070967event A move to expel South Africa from UNCTAD (The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) is defeated in the United Nat9 Dec 2011–
E-0070949event President Mandela extends both the cut-off date for amnesty applications and the deadline for applications to the Truth and Rec9 Dec 2011–
E-0070929event Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070865event The UN Security Council chooses Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body.9 Dec 2011✓

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