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E-0070640event The Rev. Arnold Stofile, secretary of the Border region of the United Democratic Front, is released from prison on humanitarian5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070600event Cabinet is reshuffled, and the head of the mining house Gencor, Derek Keys, is appointed Minister of Trade and Industry.  5 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-0070511event The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 44(I), expressing the opinion that the treatment of Indians in Sou5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070449event President Nelson Mandela arrives in the United Arabian Emirates as guest of honour at the annual conference of Arabian countrie5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070404event A bomb explosion, shattering the Johannesburg office of the Department of Foreign Affairs, is the forty-second attack by ANC sa5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070251event The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park announce a consumer boycott of Boksburg. The boycott by Coloured and Black resid25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070237event The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, supported by In25 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-0071054event The South African Institute of Race Relations calls for judicial inquiries into the death of detainees in police custody, backe9 Dec 2011–
E-0071043event Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and9 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-0070903event A White extremist group, the ‘Wit Kommando’ claims responsibility for the bombing of the offices of Professor F.A. Maritz at th9 Dec 2011–
E-0070885event Dr Sydney Arnold Skaife, founder member of the Cape Nature Conservation Association and author under the name of Hendrik Brand,9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070857event The first of the ‘Bantustans’ comes into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opens9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070846event George VI becomes King of England following the abdication of Edward VIII. The Royal family visited South Africa in 1947.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070800event Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069075event Jan Eloff, son-in-law of President Paul Kruger, is appointed as commissioner of Johannesburg, replacing Carl von Brandis, who w1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069055event After a meeting between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073490event Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic priest accused of participating in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsi by ethnic Hutu in Rwanda, sur31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073456event At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071277event SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.14 Dec 2011✓
R-0108125archive Press statement issued by the National Union of Namibian Workers [and] the Congress of South African Trade Unions, 6 April 198922 Feb 2016–
E-0074003event Cecil John Rhodes gives evidence before the South African Committee of the House of Commons on the Jameson Raid enquiry.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073782event President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073719event African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073693event President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of31 Jan 2012–

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