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E-0070303event Following the January meeting of health ministers in London, a decision is taken that December 1 become World Aids Day.http://w25 Nov 2011–
E-0070245event Prime Minister John Vorster achieves an overwhelming victory in the General Election, taking 136 of the 165 parliamentary seats25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070234event The Voortrekker Beweging (Afrikaner youth movement) starts a torch-race, ending in Pretoria at the laying of the cornerstone of25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070202event Mduduzi (Dudu) Kunene, anaesthetist, chair of Siltek Ltd and deputy chair of Kunene Bros Holdings, is born in Boksburg.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070201event Johann Christiaan Kriegler, Judge of the Constitutional Court and former chairman of the Electoral Commission is born in Pretor25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071206event 2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071169event Two explosions in Bisho, the Ciskei’s capital, damage the Pick ‘n Pay shopping centre and a garage and injure one person.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071168event Hans Olaf Waldemar Rüdiger Emmerich Felix Januarius (Olaf) Andresen, composer, mainly of light music, dies in Kempton Park, Tv14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071128event The ANC holds its forty-ninth National Conference in Bloemfontein. Its strategy and tactics document “From Resistance to Recons14 Dec 2011–
E-0071115event Walter Sisulu is served a notification, in terms of section 9 of the Suppression of Communism Act, whereby Sisulu is prohibited14 Dec 2011–
E-0071057event The ANC concludes its first national consultative conference held inside South Africa in thirty-one years. The Conference, whic9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071055event The United Nations General Assembly adopts a total of eighteen resolutions on the situation in South Africa and problems creat9 Dec 2011–
E-0071045event Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) commits its first acts of violence, when several buildings in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg ar9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071000event Five people, under whom three children, are killed and five injured in a landmine explosion at Chatsworth, near Messina, Northe9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070957event Anglo-Boer War 2: Reports reach London of the large number of deaths in South African concentration camps. africanhistory.about9 Dec 2011–
E-0070932event Zwelakhe Solomon Mankazana, chief executive officer of Ubambo Investment Holdings and director of Cell C (Pty) Ltd, is born in9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070915event Dr Eduard Christiaan Pienaar, professor at the University of Stellenbosch and first full-time professor in Afrikaans, is born o9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070873event The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) issues a catalogue of alleged human rights abuses it said were perpetrated in Zimbabwe9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070872event Hours before US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in Rwanda, Hutu rebels attack a village with guns, grenades and m9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070859event South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign a new customs agreement in Pretoria, to come into operation on 1 March 1970.9 Dec 2011–
E-0070853event Sisulu, together with a number of members from the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and African National Congress (ANC), meet in9 Dec 2011–
E-0070848event George Sammy Shane Maluleke, attorney and member of several law-related Boards and Commissions, is born in Wallmannstal, near P9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069062event David Mofokeng disappears from police custody. The police claim he escaped from custody after being arrested for a robbery in A1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069054event UN Emergency Force reports success in easing tension between Egyptian and Israeli troops at positions west of Suez Canal.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069029event Yolande Wessels disappears after school in Kempton Park. Later evidence suggests that she was abducted by paedophile Gert van R1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069014event Matthews "Loop-en-Val" Motshwareteu, one of South Africa’s greatest middle-and long-distance athletes, is born in Sow1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073502event In the preamble to the Bambatha rebellion, Umgeni divisional magistrate, Mr T.R. Bennett, is threatened by twenty-seven armed B31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073481event George Shabangu of KwaNdebele disappears, allegedly escaping from police custody while pointing out an arms cache in the veld.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073478event The Prime Minister explains that administrative rationalisation is to be implemented in four states, and announces that the Dep31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073457event Sir Gordon Sprigg forms his first ministry in the Cape at the request of the governor, Sir Bartle Frere.31 Jan 2012✓

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