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E-0069658event Algeria’s military-installed president, Liamine Zeroual, is proclaimed winner of the November 16 election, boycotted by most ma11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069577event European Union ambassadors approve a total arms embargo to punish Nigeria’s military regime for the execution of nine political11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070652event A freak storm, one of the worst in living memory, hits Johannesburg International Airport, damaging several passenger jets so b5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070543event Thomas François Burgers (47), former state president of the ZAR (1872-1877), dies in poverty in Richmond, CC.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070508event Eduard Amandus Lippert (72), founder of the Modderfontein dynamite factory near Johannesburg, dies in Hamburg, Germany. He obta5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070367event Edward Holcroft, general manager of  NetDay South Africa, a non-profit organisation, announces the group has set up computer n25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070286event Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070264event Four years after first raising the possibility of irregularities in South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms acquisition process,25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070240event The Government closes all lines of communication with five districts in Pondoland and reintroduces emergency regulations for th25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070231event Goolam Mohamed Karim, chairman of the Islamic Medical Association, Eastern Transvaal branch who wrote several books and present25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070197event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Renosterkop takes place between forces under Major-General Paget and Gen. B. Viljoen.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070180event State President P.W. Botha appoints the former Transvaal judge president, Mr Justice Wessel Groenewald Boshoff, as chairman of25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071208event As result of investigations into the Port Elizabeth explosions, Security Police arrest and charge Robert H. Strachan with causi14 Dec 2011–
E-0071156event Marthinus Cornelius (oom Tienie) van Schoor, electrical engineer, inventor of the single-line train control system and cultural14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071148event The Steering Committee of CODESA reach an agreement whereby all parties will commit themselves "politically and morally&qu14 Dec 2011–
E-0071126event Ivory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office, praising the economic austerity policies of his predecess14 Dec 2011✓
R-0071082archive TRC Report on three Umkhonto we Sizwe members who stormed into the Silverton branch of Volkskas bank (Video)12 Dec 2011–
E-0070995event The South African Institute of Race Relations reports that 433 people are known to be still in custody.9 Dec 2011–
E-0070965event The Minister of Agricultural Technical Services, J.J. Fouche, claims that South Africa is strong enough to withstand sanctions9 Dec 2011–
E-0070895event Laurie Nathan, national organiser of the End Conscription Campaign, 1984-86, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069063event The independent Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad, critical of government policy, is published with Max du Preez as editor.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0073467event C.W.H. Kohler, first chairman of the KWV, dies in Vishoek, CP one day before his 90th birthday.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073462event Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071243event Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and founder member of the Johannesburg Municipal Sports Club, dies in Johannesburg14 Dec 2011✓
E-0074004event Daniël Petrus Goosen, secretary for the Academy of Science and Art, is born in Schweizer-Reneke, western Transvaal.10 Feb 2012✓
E-0073797event Ex-President F.W. De Klerk announces that his marriage of 39 years to Marike is on the rocks.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073711event Dr Albertus Daniel Keet  (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072909event Hundreds of Zulu men protesting against paying the Natal Poll Tax, threaten to kill their magistrate Mr. R E Dunn20 Jan 2012✓
E-0072899event Approximately ten thousand residents of Pretoria attend the Tshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations on Church Square. Afro20 Jan 2012–
E-0072731event Heated discussion occurs at a cabinet meeting and President Mandela casts doubt on the commitment of second Deputy President F.16 Jan 2012✓

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