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E-0092561event The first church building in Stellenbosch, erected at request of Governor Simon van der Stel, is consecrated.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092538event Elections end in Gazankulu. Professor Hudson Ntsanwisi is unanimously re-elected leader of the Gazankulu Legislative Assembly.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092534event Authorities crack down on Algerians demonstrating for independence in Paris. Historians estimate at least 200 were killed.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092511event Violent demonstrations break out (16-19 October) in Harare suburbs after bread prices are raised by 30%.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092465event Interim constitution is approved by nineteen of the twenty-one parties participating in the Multi-Party Talks.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092458event Seven African National Congress members receive a tumultuous welcome in Soweto following their release after twenty-six years’27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092345event Political assassination: Jeff Wabena, ANC, unionist, is shot dead at the ANC branch meeting in Mdantsane, Ciskei.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092326event Prof. D.F. Malherbe delivers a historical lecture in Wellington, dealing with the question whether Afrikaans is a dialect or a27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092250event Elizabeth Taylor marries for a 6th time. She re-marries Richard Burton at a remote location in Botswana.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092219event The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092121event Twenty (or eighteen) mourners die in Katlehong, East Rand, when gunmen open fire at Sam Ntuli’s funeral.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092120event Twenty (or eighteen) mourners die in Katlehong, East Rand, when gunmen open fire at Sam Ntuli’s funeral.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092072event Takalani Madima, advocate and expert on Labour Law and Industrial Relations is born in Sibasa, Venda (Limpopo).27 Aug 2012–
E-0092067event Gustav Schoeman Preller (68), journalist, cultural leader and first Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Pelindaba, near Pretoria27 Aug 2012–
E-0092028event Essop Jassat, medical practitioner and political community worker, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. During the apartheid era27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091905event Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces in Umtata that the Transkei will become fully independent on 26 October 1976.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091731event The Goldstone Commission issues its report on the Bisho massacre, in which it describes the "indiscriminate" shooting23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090594event The Rev. John Daniel Lindley (80), missionary and clergyman of the Voortrekkers, dies in Morristown, New Jersey.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090560event Britain signs a peace treaty with the Zulus, banishing Cetshwayo and dividing Zululand in thirteen separate chiefdoms under a B14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090548event Construction on the 9-m SALT telescope at Sutherland, the largest single telescope in the southern hemisphere, starts officiall14 Aug 2012–
E-0090547event Construction on the 9-m SALT telescope at Sutherland, the largest single telescope in the southern hemisphere, starts officiall14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090531event Mr Zwelinzima Vavi, regional secretary of COSATU’s Western Transvaal region is arrested and held in solitary confinement.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090523event The Southern African Development Bank, financed primarily by South Africa, is formally established with headquarters in Midrand14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090427event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under General French occupies Waterval-Boven and Waterval-Onder in eastern Transvaal.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090346event During a meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, President Kenneth Kaunda supports acting South African President F.W. de Klerk’s moves10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090330event Dr Leander Starr Jameson announces the proposed colonial commission of inquiry into martial law in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090285event Egypt and Britain sign a treaty providing for withdrawal of British forces except in the Suez Canal area.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090245event National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and president James Motlatsi are arrested in Newcastle,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090202event A bomb explodes in the Planet Hollywood restaurant at Cape Town’s popular Victoria & Alfred Waterfront killing one person a10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091694event The Battle of Naauwpoort, near Clarens in the eastern OFS, takes place during the second Basotho War.23 Aug 2012✓

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