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… | Pretoria News Weekend, Saturday August 23, 2003. Today in History … The first sermon is preached in the old Groote Kerk in Cape Town. …

… More than 150 Congolese Tutsis are massacred in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. …

… Eighteen mineworkers die in a methane gas explosion in the Mponeng mine near Carletonville. …

… Judge Jefferys (62), SA athlete, dies in a car accident in Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal. …

… Seven Nigerian UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu. …

… Seven Nigerian UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu. …

… Prof. Gerhard Johannes Beukes, Afrikaans expert in literature and dramatist, dies in Bloemfontein. …

… The Springbok rugby team beats Australia 16-9 in the second test in Durban. …

… The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) commences with lectures in a temporary hall in Braamfontein. …

… The SA rugby team beats England 33-15 in a test in Port Elizabeth. …

… Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings seizes power in his first military coup in Ghana. …

… ’Forging Equality in South Africa’, Desmond Tutu Interview in Chicago. 12 June, 2004 …

… The League of Nations, established in 1919, holds its first meeting in London.  …

… Jacobus Johannes Naude (80), scout for the Boers in Transvaal, dies in Pretoria. …

… The first mail boat in Durban, the Armadale Castle, anchors in the harbour. …

… Eighteen people, mostly children, die in an attack on a school bus in Rwanda. …

… The Rev. A.J. Begemann, first pastor in Pretoria, is born in the Netherlands. …

… Horace William Chapman (50), SA cricket player in two tests, dies in Durban. …

… Sir Frederick Napier Broome (54), former colonial secretary in Natal, dies in London. …

… A limpet mine explodes in a Queenstown restaurant in the Eastern Cape, injuring nineteen people. …

… Lennox Sidney Brown, SA cricket player in two tests, is born in Randfontein. …

… Cuba denies its troops are engaged in fighting against SA forces in Angola. …

… American forces land in Somalia to begin humanitarian operation in famine-stricken country. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 268. … Ten ANC supporters are killed in Gamalakhe, Natal, in an attack on a gathering. …

… Nine ships are wrecked in a gale in Table Bay.  208 lives are lost. …

… Sir Langham Dale, superintendentgeneral of education in SA, is born in Hampshire, England. …

… Rijk Tulbagh, born in Utrecht, Holland, in 1699, becomes Governor of the Cape. …

… The first indication of protest over schooling in Afrikaans appears in Soweto schools. …

… Eight people are killed and 29 injured in riots outside a factory in Johannesburg. …

… Arthur Wellesley Briscoe, SA cricket player in 3 test matches, is born in Johannesburg. …