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E-0070249event A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070241event Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Cyprian Bhepezulu, and twelve Kraals occupied by his followers, are attacked by hostile Blacks fo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070229event Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070228event Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071234event Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071205event Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071198event Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071152event Justice John Foxcroft rejects the plea for acquittal of Allan Boesak’s defence and postpones the case until the following year.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071145event Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071129event The United Nations (UN) General Assembly appoints Kofi Annan of Ghana to a five-year term as secretary-general, beginning 1 Jan14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071060event Orlando Pirates becomes the first Southern African soccer team to win the African League of Champions, beating Ivory Coast’s AS9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070992event Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed by the Transvaal section of the Supreme Court. He must serve his six year prison sentence.9 Dec 2011–
E-0070976event Balancing bundles of food and clothing on their heads, Rwandan refugees who previously refused to return home begin re-entering9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070975event SA signs agreement with the UN and the Commission of the European Union concerning the legal status, privileges and immunities9 Dec 2011–
E-0070969event The General Assembly declares that the South African regime has "no right to represent the people of South Africa" an9 Dec 2011–
E-0070962event The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070944event Prisoner Nelson Mandela has the first of three meetings with State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future SA.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070902event The interim state Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, created on 1 June 1979, returns to colonial status and becomes the colony of Zimbabwe-Rhod9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070897event A police patrol, out to investigate an assassination attempt in the Transkei, are attacked by a gang of about sixty Poqo member9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070886event Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Magersfontein continues. At about midday the British retire to their camp at Modder River.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070862event Moroccan officials in El Aiun proclaim Morocco’s annexation of the Spanish Sahara as some 5 000 Moroccan troops march into the9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070854event Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070849event Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070835event Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070826event Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first9 Dec 2011✓
R-0070784archive Labour Input to the Presidential Job Summit presented on behalf of COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU by John Gomomo, COSATU President9 Dec 2011–
E-0069037event The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069034event A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069025event The government announces a plan to allow White and Black businessmen to form partnerships as part of a strategy to draw Blacks1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069010event Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric1 Nov 2011✓

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