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E-0091382event Dimension Data the information technology long-time darling of the JSE and London Stock Exchange reaches an all-time high of R723 Aug 2012✓
E-0091375event F. W. de Klerk is inaugurated as state president of South Africa. The date of 22 September, given by some sources, is not corre23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091346event King Edward VII signs the South African Law, providing for 121 members of parliament, of which ten ministers, in London. The So23 Aug 2012–
E-0091345event King Edward VII signs the South African Law, providing for 121 members of parliament, of which ten ministers, in London. The So23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091260event Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin (57), secretary of the Orphan Chamber in Cape Town and collector of books and paintings, dies in Ca23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091221event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t23 Aug 2012–
E-0090038event The Chamber of 17, executive body of the Dutch East India Company decides to establish a refreshment post at the Cape after stu10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090033event Gen. Constand Viljoen is re-elected as leader of the Vryheidsfront with a bare majority of one when he receives twenty-two vote10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089990event George Adamson (83), naturalist and husband of Joy, who wrote Born Free, and two of his assistants are killed by Somali poacher10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089875event The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089869event In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite of abho10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089835event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t10 Aug 2012–
E-0089729event Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089723event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089705event Hundreds of Burundians and a few foreigners pack the airport to catch the last commercial flights out of the country as the wor10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091185event Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,23 Aug 2012–
E-0091143event The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091012event Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to inquire into all aspects14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090955event Anglo-Boer War 2: The young Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands puts the Gelderland at the disposal of Pres. Paul Kruger to jou14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090906event The chairman of the Central Road Board of the Cape Colony, P.B. Borcherds, opens Bain’s Kloof Pass to traffic.  The pass was d14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090761event Bishop Desmond Tutu is consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the first Black head of South Africa’s Angli14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090751event Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090741event The biggest gathering of world leaders in history takes place at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York 150 heads of14 Aug 2012–
E-0084062event The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc25 May 2012✓
E-0083830event Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the25 May 2012✓
E-0082049event Tens of thousands of people, most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 023 Apr 2012✓
E-0081852event The first public worship of the Church of England, also called the Anglican Church, in South Africa, is conducted in Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081643event Dr Abraham Johannes van der Merwe, SA church leader and leader of the Afrikaner community, is born in the district of Calvinia,5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081626event Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give5 Apr 2012–
E-0081575event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of5 Apr 2012–

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