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E-0070183event Four White South Africans are killed and seventeen injured when armed APLA guerrillas  storm into a golf club in King William’25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071234event Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071218event The lengthy trial of nine Black nationalist student leaders ends. They are found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced t14 Dec 2011–
E-0071215event The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbours opens in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the S14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071198event Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071184event Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071152event Justice John Foxcroft rejects the plea for acquittal of Allan Boesak’s defence and postpones the case until the following year.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071145event Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.14 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-0071105event Prof. Christian Gustav Waldemar Schumann, dean of the faculty for economy at the University of Stellenbosch and member of the h14 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-0071004event Mercenary coup in Comoros gives up power after twenty-one days. The mercenary leader and ex-presidential bodyguard, Bob Denard,9 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-0070941event The United Nations Security Council reaffirms the mandatory arms embargo, and, for the first time requests that all states refr9 Dec 2011–
E-0070909event A Zeerust family, Dr François Barnard, his wife and two sons are killed when their Piper Saratoga crashes during a storm near9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070905event Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia9 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-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-0070860event A press release states that during this year losses totalling over R20 million were incurred through collisions, wrecks and sin9 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-0070854event Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070826event Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first9 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-0070797event The first Nobel prizes are awarded.  Several South Africans, inter alia, Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela and W.A. de Klerk were9 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–
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-0069046event In Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel begin a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the all1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069025event The government announces a plan to allow White and Black businessmen to form partnerships as part of a strategy to draw Blacks1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073496event Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.31 Jan 2012✓

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