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E-0069576event The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) White Paper, put before parliament, calls for an expeditious programme to en11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069559event Thirty-eight African and Asian delegations table a draft resolution in the Trusteeship Committee asking for an effective United11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070604event Taiwanese Foreign Minister John Chang Hsiaoyen visits South Africa and holds talks with President Mandela. The President insis5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070572event A national strike paralyses Zimbabwe. Bowing to growing demonstrations, the government gives up plans for new taxes to finance5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070534event Speaking at the International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Abuja, Nigeria, Madik5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070504event Britain announces intention to intervene in the Congo Free State if Belgian and German atrocities against natives continues.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070469event About 25 000 people in Johannesburg are unemployed and the government announces that it has no jobs available.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070301event A Hammanskraal policeman, Richard Motasi, an alleged informer for the Zimbabwean security police, and his wife Irene is murdere25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070292event Bob Forster successfully defends his world lightweight title against SA challenger Pierre Fourie during the first-ever boxing c25 Nov 2011✓
E-0070205event President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.25 Nov 2011✓
E-0071192event South African President P.W. Botha fires the government’s only non-White Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from14 Dec 2011–
E-0071185event The United Nations General Assembly passes a draft Resolution, by eighty-seven votes to one (Portugal) and twelve abstentions,14 Dec 2011–
E-0071138event The Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) is founded in Bloemfontein, with Dr N.J. van der Merwe as chairman.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071121event A three-day Black Renaissance Convention ends at St. Peter’s Seminary, Hammanskraal. It was sponsored by the Christian Institut14 Dec 2011–
E-0071011event Storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape, especially Umtata, and unleash tornados, hailstorms, rain squalls and lightning which9 Dec 2011✓
E-0070942event Joseph Mogotsi, a teacher, dies in Pretoria after his car was forced off the road and he was assaulted.9 Dec 2011✓
E-0073796event The IFP have issued a new Mission Statement calling for a ‘social market economy’ following a three-day National Council worksh31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073795event President Mandela issues an invitation to Libyan leader Col. M. al Kadhaffi. The National Party considers this could jeopardize31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073781event An Israeli fighter pilot shoots down a Libyan aircraft over the Sinai Desert. Seventy-four passengers and crewmembers die.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073741event WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073654event Governor Isbrand Goske dispatches an expedition to Hottentots Holland to decide whether the district is suitable for permanent31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073543event Fourteen White Natal policemen under Sub-Inspector Hunt ride out to arrest the culprits who threatened divisional magistrate T.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073529event Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen has announced he will seek amnesty before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission31 Jan 2012✓
E-0072888event It is revealed in Switzerland that the International University Exchange Fund’s Deputy Director, Craig Williamson, has been wor20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071923event South African and Saudi Arabian envoys hold talks with Colonel Gaddafi to try to resolve the Lockerbie checkmate.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071840event John Tengo Jabavu, the second Black matriculant in South Africa and well-known journalist, is born near Healdtown.6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073431event The official opposition Progressive Federal Party refuses to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073372event Herero Revolt in German South West Africa: Omaruru is relieved after a fierce battle between Franke and the Ovaherero.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073368event Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, is born in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia.31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073361event More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.31 Jan 2012✓

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