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E-0069643event The Democratic Party officially comes into being at a one-day conference in Johannesburg attended by some 200 delegates from th11 Nov 2011✓
E-0069591event Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori11 Nov 2011✓
E-0070640event The Rev. Arnold Stofile, secretary of the Border region of the United Democratic Front, is released from prison on humanitarian5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070632event Theo Gerdener resigns from the National Party on account of his involvement with Action South and Southern Africa (ACASA), an i5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070601event President George Bush orders about 28,000 US troops to Somalia to block warring Somali gangs from intercepting food shipments.5 Dec 2011✓
E-0070486event Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou5 Dec 2011✓
E-0071228event Andries Hendrik Potgieter establishes the town now known as Potchefstroom, about 10 km from where the centre city now is.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071182event Prof. J.L.B. Smith receives a cable from Captain Eric Hunt, stating that he has a coelacanth at the Comoro Islands. Prime Minis14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071119event The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching14 Dec 2011–
E-0071056event Five anti-apartheid leaders, imprisoned in 1988 for political activities, are freed from Robben Island. Among them are the gen9 Dec 2011–
E-0070907event The ANC confirms it has forwarded 300 applications from its members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and expects to s9 Dec 2011–
E-0071276event Gladstone Sewela, former Mandela United Football Club member, is found near Zeerust hanging from a tree the day of his release14 Dec 2011✓
E-0073643event Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released unconditionally from the Victor Verster prison in Paarl at 331 Jan 2012✓
E-0073581event Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly co31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073512event Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t31 Jan 2012✓
E-0071869event Abeid Karume, leader of the Zanzibar Afro-Shrazi Party, seizes power from the Arab dominated Zanzibar National Party and procla6 Jan 2012✓
E-0071844event Samuel Maharero orders all Ovaherero chiefs to take up arms against the Germans. He orders them to "refrain from touching6 Jan 2012✓
E-0073393event The Citizen reveals that Miss Olivia Forsyth who arrived at the British Embassy in Luanda, Angola, seeking sanctuary from the A31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073258event President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an31 Jan 2012✓
E-0073164event Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die27 Jan 2012✓
E-0072966event It is announced that efforts by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the So20 Jan 2012✓
E-0071656event SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071589event The conference at Aburi, Ghana (4-5 January), fails to prevent the secession of Biafra from Nigeria and the ensuing civil war.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071532event Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrive at Lanseria airport on board a rescue flight from Bangkok14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071462event The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.14 Dec 2011✓
E-0071451event The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship.14 Dec 2011✓
R-0123953archive Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.16 Aug 2017–
B-0009202biography Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd1901-1966–
R-0098495archive Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 193020 Oct 2014–
R-0088184archive A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg12 Jul 2012–

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