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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✓
E-0070901event The Christian Institute appeals to the Prime Minister, John Vorster, asking him to reconsider the withdrawal or confiscation of9 Dec 2011–
E-0070896event Dr. Verwoerd tells the union Council of Coloured Affairs that the Council will be transformed into a Coloured ‘Parliament’ with9 Dec 2011–
E-0070890event Rosa Sophia Cornelia Nepgen, SA composer and wife of poet W.E.G. Louw, is born in Barkly-East, Eastern Cape.9 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-0070858event J.F. Wenzel presents his credentials to President Banda as South Africa’s first Chargé d’Affaires and head of legation i9 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-0070824event The Citizen reports that prominent members of the Soweto community, including the Rev. Frank Chikane, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, Mrs A9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070811event Justice H.F. de Wet sentences Maria Groesbeek to death on the charge of poisoning her husband, Chistiaan Buys (43).9 Dec 2011✓
R-0070787archive Address to the Second NEDLAC Summit presented by John Gomomo, COSATU President, on behalf of COSATU, NACTU and FEDUSA9 Dec 2011–

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