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E-0092565event Anglo-Boer War:  In a proclamation sent to Basutoland, President Steyn explains the defensive presence of commandos on the Bas27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092525event Prime Minister Louis Botha invites President M.T. Steyn to a meeting aimed at establishing a new political party in the Union o27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092489event Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J27 Aug 2012–
E-0092486event T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) arrives in Cairo with a British fact-finding mission whose purpose is to recommend ways of27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092484event Anglo-Boer War: Republican forces under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog attack Jagersfontein and release all prisoners in the gaol before t27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092476event MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is cleared in Zimbabwe by the High Court of charges of plotting to kill Mugabe.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092474event The first president of Mauritania, Moktar Ould Daddah, dies in Paris. Some other sources give date as 14 October.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092468event Rebels, backed by foreign troops, enter Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, ending President Pascal Lissouba’s four-month str27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092444event The conference of African leaders, meeting in Bloemfontein, firmly rejects the Tomlinson Report on the development of the Afric27 Aug 2012–
E-0092361event C.K. Thambi Naidoo, representing Gandhi at a public meeting in Newcastle, mobilises the Indians living there to start the Satya27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092320event Dr Emil Cohen, geologist and discoverer of the first gold deposits at Lydenburg, northern Transvaal, is born in Denmark.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092314event The corruption case against former deputy president Jacob Zuma is postponed to November 12 in Durban magistrate’s court.   Af27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092277event Frederick Logier (66), organist and music teacher who established the Logier music academy in Cape Town, dies. A composition by27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092266event Rebels use a missile to shoot down a jetliner carrying forty civilians in eastern Congo, claiming it was ferrying government tr27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092252event The ‘Afrikaanse Taalmonument’ (Afrikaans Language Monument), on the slope of Paarl Rock just outside Paarl, Western Cape, is in27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092157event The Mozambique Government, its right-wing guerrilla opponents and South African officials meet in Pretoria to thrash out detail27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092155event Equal education for all races, including a provision that will allow White government schools to admit Blacks, is proposed in t27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092151event The United Nations Security Council meets in emergency session to hear a complaint by Zambia against numerous violations by Sou27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092141event Lord William Selbourne, British high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, open27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092097event Maharero, Herero chief under whose leadership the Herero were liberated from their Nama oppressors, dies in Okahandja, South-We27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092077event Parliament meets in special session to elect the National Party candidate, Alwyn Schlebusch, as the nation’s first Vice-Preside27 Aug 2012–
E-0091900event A national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church starts in Bloemfontein, to discuss the serious poor White prob27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091866event Aliens Control Act No 96, replacing all previous legislation regarding foreigners entering, leaving or being resident in the co24 Aug 2012✓
E-0091787event Meeting in a special session, the National Executive Committee of the ANC ratifies the Record of Understanding. It resolves to23 Aug 2012–
E-0091776event The sixth and final report of the Wiehahn Commission, inquiring into labour legislation, is tabled in Parliament. Dealing with23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091738event South Africa calls for an urgent solution to the row over Iran’s nuclear programme following a meeting in Johannesburg between23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091719event Voters go to the polls in the Transkei’s pre-independence elections. The results are a foregone conclusion following the Transk23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090673event Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, is born in Krugersdorp.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090672event Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, is born in Krugersdorp.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090603event Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser begins talks in Cairo on proposed negotiations for international control of the Suez Cana14 Aug 2012✓

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