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E-0070407event Chief George Matanzima and former Transkei minister of finance, Mr Sidney Qaba, appear together in the Transkei Supreme Court.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070402event South Africa is expelled from the annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, meeting in New Delhi.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070393event The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 616(VII) establishing a three-member Commission to study the racia5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070380event Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070344event It is officially conceded that the majority of members elected to the first Transkei Legislative Assembly, support Chief Poto.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070321event Thirty-three people are killed when a military passenger plane crashes into market stalls at Boende, Democratic Republic of Con25 Nov 2011–
E-0070310event Prosecutors in South Africa formally charge former Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan and nineteen others with the murders of t25 Nov 2011✓
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-0070300event The Appellate Division rejects the appeal of the "Sharpeville Six" against the death sentence imposed on them for the25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070284event The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra), an independent non-profit-making organisation, is established with the twof25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070263event A lesbian couple’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal to have their marriage legally recognised and registered succeeds. Mar25 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-0070217event A document released in Cape Town, discloses that SA ministers condoned the murder of Black demonstrators during the 1976 riots.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070196event François Petrus (Toon) van den Heever, SA poet and justice-president, is born in the district of Heidelberg, Tvl.25 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-0071172event President F. W. de Klerk announces that he is either suspending or forcibly retiring 23 officers of the South African Defence F14 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-0071154event Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, who led the trekkers at the Battle of Vegkop against the Matabele (Ndebele), and14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071142event Robert Mugabe and ZANU Central Committee survive an assassination attempt in a bombing of the party headquarters in Harare. Sev14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071066event Taliep Petersen, one of South Africa’s most popular theatre personalities, is shot and killed execution style during an armed r9 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-0071047event The General Assembly appeals for assistance to families of persons persecuted by the South African Government for their opposit9 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-0071020event Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger and General J.B.M.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071017event Prof. John William Bews, SA botanist and expert on different species of grass, is born on the Orkney Islands.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070996event The SADF discharges Mr Yeats, conscientious objector, ‘with ignominy’ after he has served thirty-five days of solitary confinem9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070979event The ruling African National Congress sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe , after finding him guilty of sexually harassing a pa9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070977event Clarence Mlokoti, a founder member of Kaizer Chiefs, is shot dead by hijackers when they try to take his car.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070947event The General Assembly concludes three days of debate on Apartheid. Most Member States welcome the positive developments that hav9 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✓

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