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E-0069585event In a move set to keep SA and Africa on the European Union’s (EU’s) radar screen, President Thabo Mbeki leads a top delegation o11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070551event WWII: South African armoured cars take part in the pursuit of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps as it retreats towards5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070398event It is announced that White, Coloured and Asian workers affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) have voted5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070394event Walter Sisulu, John Mavuso, Moses Kotane, Marks Ramitloa and Betty du Toit attend a Christmas party in aid of the high treason5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070354event Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, is released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was sentenced in25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070329event John Ayliff jr, missionary, private secretary of governor Sir George Grey and postmaster-general of Natal, dies on board the Da25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070274event Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070212event The NP retains three House of Assembly seats in by-elections, with reduced majorities, losing ground to right-wing parties oppo25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070189event Congo reaches a cease-fire agreement in Paris with Uganda and Rwanda, which support rebels in Congo, but the rebel groups thems25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070187event Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila’s soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071223event Participants in CODESA decide to set up five working groups, which are to report to a second CODESA plenary session before the14 Dec 2011–
E-0071189event Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071164event General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071153event Bertie Reed (63), for many years a Springbok and international sailing legend and one of the most-popular skippers in single-ha14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071127event American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Moh14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071062event Sir Laurens van der Post (90), SA born explorer, author and mentor of Britain’s Prince Charles, dies in Chelsea, England. The d9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071030event Johannes Nkosi is seriously injured by police during a campaign to burn passbooks. He dies on the 19th. Three other activists a9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071027event The Women’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein, to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during Anglo-Boer War 2, ma9 Dec 2011✓
E-0071014event In the Battle of Blood River, a Voortrekker commando of 470 men, under leadership of Andries Pretorius, is attacked at Ncome Ri9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070985event Dr John Daniël Kestell (Vader Kestell), moderator of the DRC synod, editor of Die Kerkbode, and rector of Grey University Coll9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070929event Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070923event Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070820event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0069042event Forces of the British South Africa Company force Matabele King Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to flee his Great Place in Bulawayo1 Nov 2011✓
E-0069027event Two South Africans of Indian descent, including the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, are told they could not travel to New Delh1 Nov 2011–
E-0073493event In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073454event Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071252event South Africa’s White parliament, sitting probably for the last time, buries apartheid, voting 237 to 45 to adopt an interim con14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073758event Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg announces that the 1995-96 Budget deficit will be R30.1 billion or 6 per cent of G.D.P.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073673event The House of Assembly approves, by eighty-six votes to forty-three, a motion to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and31 Jan 2012✓

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