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E-0090564event Sir Julius Jeppe (70), founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090515event Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga and Afrikaans poet, is born in Mbombela township, Nelspruit. 14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090511event Elizabeth Roos establishes the ACVV (Afrikaanse Christelike Vrouevereniging) in Cape Town as the Zuid-Afrikaansche Christelijke14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090506event Sir John Charles Molteno (72), first prime minister of the Cape Colony, dies in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090505event Britain signs peace treaty with Zulus in South Africa. Another source gives the date as 2 September.   14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090491event A car bomb explodes in a crowded square outside Algeria’s national police headquarters, killing 10 and injuring 15.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090479event International Student Conference in Solidarity with the Struggle of the Students of Southern Africa, London, starts. 14 Aug 2012–
E-0090408event President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria as violence spread to Soweto.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090338event Transkei Authorities Act No 6, setting in place mechanisms for the recognition of the Transkei government, commences.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090303event Twelve Blacks are shot dead by police in Soweto, and a town councillor is hacked to death.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090291event W. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, Pan-Africanist activist and founder of the NAACP, dies in Accra, Ghana.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091668event President Gamal Abdel Nasser (52), Egyptian leader, dies of a heart attack. Sadat replaces him in October.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091580event An Islamic appeals court in Nigeria frees Amina Lawal after she is acquitted on adultery charges.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091547event Breakthrough reached at peace talks in Kenya between Sudanese government and the SPLA over key issues.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091536event In the homeland’s first general election, fifty-seven members are elected for the KaNgwane Legislative Assembly.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091493event The United States government officially advises American companies operating in South Africa to negotiate with (unregistered) A23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091319event South Africa’s first public bond issue since 1985, led by Deutsche Bank in Europe, was successful.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091318event South Africa’s first public bond issue since 1985, led by Deutsche Bank in Europe, was successful.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091291event WWI: The Cape Corps, two infantry battalions of Cape Coloured men, captures Square Hill in Palestine.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090168event An SADF officer shoots five fellow members in their sleep on a farm near Fouriesburg, Free State.10 Aug 2012–
E-0090167event An SADF officer shoots five fellow members in their sleep on a farm near Fouriesburg, Free State.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090132event Judge John Stephen Curlewis (77), Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090047event Chief Commandant C.R. de Wet, back in the Free State, sets up his headquarters at Renosterpoort.   10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090024event African National Congress headquarters would remain in Zambia "until the day of liberation", says Zambian President K10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089975event The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089871event Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.10 Aug 2012–
E-0089870event Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089709event Rebels fighting Congolese President Laurent Kabila capture a power transformer in western Congo, sending the capital, Kinshasa,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091038event An Olympic opening ceremony, in which the South African team takes part, dazzle downtown Sydney, Australia.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091029event Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, meeting in New Delhi, reiterates that a "programmed manage14 Aug 2012–

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