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E-0091526event Rioters in the Congo burn and loot the Portuguese embassy in Kinshasa, demanding that relations with Portugal be broken off. 23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091307event Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, dies in exile in London.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090147event Violent ethnic clashes between Zulus and others, involving circa 10,000 Blacks in running fights start, causing chaos in Soweto10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089891event Jonker Afrikaner, chief of the Afrikaner tribe of Hottentots, dies in Okahandja, German West Africa.   He was born c. 1790 in10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089821event The Secretary of Health announces that all senior doctors in the Public Service, irrespective of race, will in future receive e10 Aug 2012–
E-0089794event An armed group kills 29 people in south-western Algeria in the worst violence since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika took office10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089758event Comdt Louw Wepener (53) is killed in combat during an attack on Moshesh at Thaba Bosigo in the Free State.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089748event In Kenya 200 raiders attacks the police station in Likoni, Mombasa. Prisoners are freed; six police officers and seven civilian10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089718event Charles Frederick Morris Saint, first professor of surgery at the Medical school in Cape Town, is born in Northumberland, Engla10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091205event The Secretary of Health announces that all senior doctors in the Public Service, irrespective of race, will in future receive e23 Aug 2012–
E-0091096event An armed group kills 29 people in south-western Algeria in the worst violence since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika took office14 Aug 2012–
E-0091050event Comdt Louw Wepener (53) is killed in combat during an attack on Moshesh at Thaba Bosigo in the Free State.14 Aug 2012–
E-0091013event Louis Washkansky, first heart transplant patient in the world on 3 December 1967, is admitted to Groote Schuur hospital in Cape14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090976event Six political refugees, including the President of the United Democratic Front (UDF) seek refuge in the British consulate in Du14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090970event Speaking to the Transvaal Congress of the ruling National Party in Pretoria, the Prime Minister again rejects major changes in14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090874event In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria reply that Johannesburg is named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Ch14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090783event The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090745event Johannes de Wet, lawyer, historian and leader in public affairs, also a fervent anti-convict agitator, is born in Cape Town. 14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090729event The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t14 Aug 2012–
E-0083832event General elections in South Africa. The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) comes to power in coalition with th25 May 2012✓
E-0081992event Business Day reports that two Ciskei security policemen were killed and one injured in April in a shootout near Alice, Ciskei,23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081941event South Africa’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, dies of a heart attack in Kampala. He was involved in the United13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081902event Johannes Mashego (26) dies in police custody in Parys, OFS. His relatives report extensive bruising and swollen face upon ident13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081723event Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081663event Lucas Ntuba Radebe makes his debut in Kaizer Chiefs in the game versus Durban Bush Bucks, which Kaizer Chiefs won 2-1.5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083508event Simon Maswanganye, executive member of the Soweto Civic Association, is allegedly shot by a group of men in a white minibus in18 May 2012✓
E-0083317event Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S14 May 2012✓
E-0083300event Pupils at Phefeni Secondary School start boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans in education. The unrest sp14 May 2012✓
E-0083285event Belgian authority in the Congo has almost completely disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country.14 May 2012✓
E-0083246event 240 Mobil workers in the Transvaal strike in protest against Mobil’s alleged failure to negotiate with them over intended disin14 May 2012✓

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