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E-0089354event The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 14-10 in the first test in Johannesburg.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089353event Anglo-Boer War 2: Remnants of the notorious Steinaecker’s Horse, led by Capt. Francis and fighting on British side, are surroun31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089352event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Battle of Elands River: British Gen. Carrington retreats to the Marico River and Zeerust, Western Transvaal31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089351event Madagascar becomes a possession of the French Republic.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089350event The first electric tram service in Cape Town is officially inaugurated by Lady Sivewright, when she starts the first tram on it31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089349event Sir William Westbrooke Burton, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, dies. 31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089348event Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, elected as ‘Chairman’ of the territory south and north of the Harts River,  issues a proclamation31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089347event Anna Louisa (Annie) Visser, SA singer who was one of the first singers to record Afrikaans songs, is born on the farm Lokshoek,31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089346event Frederick William Fitzsimons, director of the Port Elizabeth museum for more than thirty years and pioneer of school museums in31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089345event Sir Lionel Phillips, President of the Chamber of Mines and developer of deep level mining, is born in London.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089344event François le Vaillant, French naturalist and traveller in SA, is born in Paramaribo, Surinam.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089343event Nigerian police arrest some thirty people in Anambra state after fifty corpses and twenty skulls are discovered in raids on fet31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089342event Locust swarms ravaging crops in parts of North Africa invade the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott stripping trees bare.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089341event 21-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, a security guard employed at the Dolphin Beach complex in Table View, is charged with the robbing31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089340event The SA race horse, Horse Chestnut, is flown to New York by  special cargo aeroplane to run in the Dubai World Cup with R30 mil31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089339event US President Bill Clinton signs a bill to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran and Libya.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089338event Ten residents are killed in Qumbu in revenge for a previous attack  on the village of Ntshongweni.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089337event A coelacanth, thought extinct before rediscovered in 1938, is caught off the south-west coast of Madagascar.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089336event Nelson Mandela leads 100 000 Blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end White rule.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089335event The United States sends a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, to evacuate US citizens because of a rebel threat to31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089334event Thirty ANC supporters are killed (5-23 August) in attacks aimed at the takeover of Kagiso hostel.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089333event Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089332event Daniel Tshabalala disappears in Soweto after allegedly taken from his house by four men, two Black men in police uniforms and t31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089331event Dr Zach de Beer succeeds Colin Eglin as leader of the PFP.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089330event Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to "maintain31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089329event Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the31 Jul 2012–
E-0089328event The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089327event Trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having planned the siege of a suburban bank in Pretoria in January, in which fi31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089326event Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089325event The state-owned Atlas Aircraft Corporation is to build an advanced subsonic fighter to be airborne in 1974.31 Jul 2012✓

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