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E-0071814event Andries Dreyer, missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071803event In an historic victory, government troops capture the headquarters of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in central Angola. Savim6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071760event Adam Faith suspends his concert tour of South Africa, because the government prohibits him to perform before mixed audiences.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071631event Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071614event Allan Boesak, charged with financial impropriety, agrees not to take up the post of Ambassador to the United Nations.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071599event Former State President Marais Viljoen, the country’s last ceremonial state president  (1979-1984) dies as a result of heart fa14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071593event The (Coloured) Labour Party opts for an election for the eighty representatives to the Coloured House of Representatives, witho14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071558event English archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the grave of Tutankamen, Egyptian king who died 3 276 years ago. In some sources14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071539event Johannes Jacob van Tonder, founder of the FAK (Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge) is born in Venterstad in the Karoo.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071516event President David Dacko of the Central African Republic is ousted in a military coup by army commander Jean-Bédel Bokassa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071498event Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071492event Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, Austri14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071491event President Thabo Mbeki joins several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071478event The Nigerian civil government of President Shehu Shagari is overthrown in a fourth, bloodless, military coup led by Major-Gener14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071449event Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohamad Ismail reports that the number of Somali’s killed by the tidal waves that battered14 Dec 2011–
E-0071417event Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071416event Winnie Mandela is banned for a further five years and continues to be restricted to the small town of Brandfort.14 Dec 2011–
E-0071403event Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071370event Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the “Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold” for his contribution as busines14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071361event Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071349event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Greylingstad takes place when Commandant Buys attacks the South Rand mine, near Greylingstad. P14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071345event Hendrik Swellengrebel (60), only governor of the Cape who was born at the Cape, dies in Utrecht, the Netherlands.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071344event Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071324event Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Tweefontein, (also Groenkop or Krismiskop) General De Wet surprises British soldiers. At14 Dec 2011✓
R-0087687archive Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964 6 Jul 2012–
R-0124035archive Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 198825 Aug 2017–
R-0088130archive Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 194911 Jul 2012–
R-0125520archive How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 201814 Nov 2018–
R-0086770archive Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 199527 Jun 2012–
R-0093945archive Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 201231 Oct 2012–

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