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E-0091601event Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091592event Personnel of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron leave Durban to assist the United Nations in the Korean War.  23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091581event Allan Boesak, one of the participants in the Rainbow Debate at a heritage festival in Eersterus where a large part of the debat23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091554event Anglo-Boer War 2: The attack on Fort Itala, occupied by the British, takes place with the British force retreating after fierce23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091515event Robert Godlonton, SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony,23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091369event The Prime Minister announces in Pretoria that he has decided that the House of Assembly and the four Provincial Councils should23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091306event The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091298event Four agreements are signed in Lisbon connected with the construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, the main one being23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091262event The explorer John Speke (37), first White man to reach the origin of the Nile River, kills himself in a shooting accident.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091257event The ANC has come out the biggest winner in the municipal councillor floor-crossing period, notching up at least 290 councillors23 Aug 2012–
E-0090154event The government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) to carry out its activities. The date is given as 24 August 19810 Aug 2012✓
E-0090053event Pieter Gert Wessel Grobler, director of the Land Bank, and Minister of Lands in the Hertzog cabinet, under whose auspices the S10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090048event The Duke of Cornwall, later King George V of Britain, lays the corner stone of the St George cathedral in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089719event The twentieth anniversary of the GRA (Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners) is celebrated and it is decided to hold the first Afrika10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089702event The ANC suspends all formal talks with the government and issues a statement explaining why it has suspended talks with the Sou10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091046event The government of President Robert Mugabe will soon lay claim to half ownership of all the country’s privately owned mines, the14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091020event Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, gives an assurance that the six refugees will not be required to leave the consu14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090953event The British Union Flag (Union Jack) is raised for the first time at Fort Salisbury, marking the beginning of prolonged British14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090897event The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) sign an agreement on wages and working conditions averting the14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090707event Sir Henry Frere, governor of the Cape Colony, lays the corner stone of the present Dale College in King William’s Town.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090690event The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090689event The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090687event The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader14 Aug 2012–
E-0090686event The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090685event The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084093event Ferdi Barnard, former member of the CCB (Civil Cooperation Bureau) is found guilty of the murder in Johannesburg on the activis25 May 2012✓
E-0084001event The Law on National Parks is passed and the name of Sabie Game Reserve is changed to the Kruger National Park.25 May 2012✓
E-0083950event Anglo-Boer War 2: The officially reported camp population of the White concentration camps is 116, 572 and the deaths for May a25 May 2012✓
E-0083943event The British troopship Arniston is wrecked on the rocks at Waenhuiskrans(later called Arniston). 372 of the 378 people on board25 May 2012✓
E-0083924event Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, announces that the attorney-general of the Transvaal is to prosecute thirty of the 357 people25 May 2012✓

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