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E-0090528event Nelson Mandela is discharged from Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital where he was treated for tuberculosis and transferred to a pri14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090520event Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya after a coup d’état, deposing King Idris and exiling him to Egypt.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090504event Theophilus Shepstone, son of British Settlers and appointed by the British government as Diplomatic Agent to the Native Tribes14 Aug 2012–
E-0090380event The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is publis14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090345event More than 10 000 Namibians attend a Windhoek rally to mark the anniversary of the start of SWAPO’s independence struggle.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090296event Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage mortar attack on regional army headquarters in Nile Val10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090277event Anglo-Boer War 2: John Tengo Jabavu’s newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu, is banned under martial law regulations, only to appear agai10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091709event WWII: The Active Citizen Force units of SA are authorised to accept volunteers for the duration of the war.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091677event Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to form a coalition government with opposition leaders after five days of rioting, th23 Aug 2012–
E-0091676event Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to form a coalition government with opposition leaders after five days of rioting, th23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091653event According to Alex Holmes, chairperson of the South African Arms and Ammunition Dealers Association, five retailers have gone ba23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091618event Armed militiamen have surged into a border area near a western village, where some of the first Darfur refugees attempting to r23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091562event The New Zealand government announces that it terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa, as from 1 Ja23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091524event South African ordinance workshops have produced the first Belgian F.N. rifle, which is now ready to go into production.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091511event Armed men raid an Algerian village, shooting or stabbing to death at least 200 people and wounding 100 others.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091496event Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat returns home to a hero’s welcome after Camp David summit resulting in an agreement on a framework23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091477event Denel, SA’s state-owned defence and aerospace group, announces that it has been awarded contracts amounting to $2 million (abou23 Aug 2012–
E-0091433event President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, leader of the ANC agree, at a peace summit, to resume constitutional negotiations t23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091427event Mbuyiselo Mbotya (35) affiliated to KWT Youth League/UDF, dies in custody from head injuries in King William’s Town.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091426event Mbuyiselo Mbotya (35) affiliated to KWT Youth League/UDF, dies in custody from head injuries in King William’s Town.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091263event War is barely averted when a British expedition to establish a route through Africa reaches an obscure Sudanese fort and finds23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091256event The South African Weather Service is officially launched by the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to provide public23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090006event The Soviet Union and Germany sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a 10-year nonaggression treaty, with a secret addendum, to parti10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089956event Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha’s invitation on 19 August 1985 to att10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089822event The ‘Committee of 81’, representing all Coloured schools and colleges in the Western Cape, decides to end class boycotts.10 Aug 2012–
E-0089805event Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co10 Aug 2012–
E-0089800event The visiting Dutch commissioner, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, gives several instructions to Gov. Simon van der Stel regarding im10 Aug 2012–
E-0089791event Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, visits South Africa in connection with South Africa’s agreement to store and mark10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089778event Elections are held in Venda (15-16 Aug). Traditionalist Chief Patrick R. Mphephu is returned to power despite electoral victory10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091207event The ‘Committee of 81’, representing all Coloured schools and colleges in the Western Cape, decides to end class boycotts.23 Aug 2012–

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