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E-0092009event The death toll reaches at least 100 in Algeria after a two-day surge of massacres attributed to the Armed Islamic Group.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092003event The Mozambique government and RENAMO rebel leaders sign an historic peace accord, and a cease-fire to end the sixteen-year civi27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091949event According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091854event A unique referendum in British Cameroon is carried out with support from UN. The Northern part of British Cameroon votes to joi24 Aug 2012✓
E-0091781event The ANC reports that it has been approached by an intermediary, acting for a SA cabinet minister, to talk about the possibility23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091760event The Berlin Airlift, which delivers 2m tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, and in whi23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091721event The Electoral College elects Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster as State President by 173 votes to the nineteen cast for Sir de23 Aug 2012–
E-0091720event The Electoral College elects Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster as State President by 173 votes to the nineteen cast for Sir de23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090665event The SA rugby team wins the last test against the British Isles in Newlands 5-0, the fist time ever to win a match.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090610event Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert is chosen as the Leader of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) in succession to Colin14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090451event Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi fires his vice president, George Saitoti, in an apparent effort to quash dissent in his ruling14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090449event Troops allied with the government of Congo capture the strategic port town of Matadi from rebel forces trying to oust President14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090439event About 600 students from five secondary schools march to Bontheuwel. On their way they are confronted by four riot squad vans. T14 Aug 2012–
E-0090435event The Prime Minister announces, in a statement before the Supreme Court in Cape Town, that Dr. Abrahams will be returned to Bechu14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090399event Morocco’s King Hassan II escapes unhurt when an airliner carrying him to Rabat is fired on by Moroccan Air Force pilots.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090396event Prime Minister Vorster says that the number of diplomats from African and Asian countries can be expected to increase, as South14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090382event The Nieuwe Republiek, with Lucas Meyer as president, is established in northern Natal, on land awarded to them by Dinizulu (Din14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090376event An American Lear jet, on its way to Johannesburg for repair, is shot down over Eritrea by Ethiopia, killing two people.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090319event Explorer and navigator Vasco da Gama arrives in Lisbon after completing his voyage to India around the Cape of Good Hope.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090311event Algeria closes its border with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090260event Eighty-four African would-be immigrants drown off Mauritania after their boats sank in an attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islan10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090211event Christiaan Andries van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090188event The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government may have to end int10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090180event Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090171event Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h10 Aug 2012–
E-0091667event Roelof Temmingh, SA composer and organist, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  He emigrates with his family in 1958 to SA.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091656event Controversial mining magnate Brett Kebble is shot dead in Melrose, Johannesburg, around 21:00 on his way to the dinner engageme23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091615event Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091605event The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in23 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✓

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