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E-0090101event A 22-nation conference has just ended with a plan for international control of the Suez Canal and the Australian prime minister10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090089event The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall embark at Simon’s Town for Canada on the next leg of their royal tour.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090084event The first rugby match in SA takes place on the Green Point common, Cape Town, between a military and civilian team.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090080event Joan van Arckel establishes the first congregation at the Cape, with Abraham Schut as elder and Jan Reyniersz as deacon.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090057event South African Airways (SAA) announces the re-routing of its services to Europe via Luanda (Angola), Brazzaville, the Cape Verde10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090037event Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele claims the Olympic men’s 10,000 metres gold in the Athens Olympic Games. His mentor Haile Gebrselass10 Aug 2012–
E-0090036event Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele claims the Olympic men’s 10,000 metres gold in the Athens Olympic Games. His mentor Haile Gebrselass10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090014event Two oil tankers collide on sea near Stilbaai.   The Texanita explodes and sinks and the Oswego Guardian is severely damaged.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089996event Regulations granting labour rights for members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) are promulgated and published in the Go10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089952event The Chinese community, officially classed non-White in the past though they were admitted to White theatres, restaurants and re10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089941event Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, is10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089923event Following meetings between the SAG and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), broad agreement was reached that could lead10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089920event Twenty thousand people attend the first legal march in Vereeniging. Security at the march is tight following threats of a right10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089889event Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali. He was murdered there the f10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089886event J. van Arkel, the first resident Dutch clergyman, arrives at the Cape. Date is given as 17 August by another source.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089868event The Security Council rejects and declares null and void the new racist constitution of South Africa. It urges governments and o10 Aug 2012–
E-0089867event The Security Council rejects and declares null and void the new racist constitution of South Africa. It urges governments and o10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089854event World War 2: East Africa. The Italian invasion of British Somaliland, which began on August 4, is complete. The Royal Navy succ10 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-0089818event The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal10 Aug 2012–
E-0089785event F.W. de Klerk is appointed and inaugurated as acting state president after the resignation of Pres. Botha the previous day. S10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089783event Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, considered by many to be the true hero of the Zimbabwean independence struggle, returns to Harar10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089767event John Cranko, SA born ballet dancer and choreographer of the Ballet school of the Wurtemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, Germany,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089764event Hendrik Lodewyk (Hennie) Roux, Afrikaans cultural leader and co-founder of the Rapportryersbeweging, is born on the farm La Mot10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089750event The SA rugby team wins their last Tri-Nations match of the season against Australia 10-9 in Newlands, Cape Town.10 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-0091201event The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal23 Aug 2012–
E-0091200event The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal23 Aug 2012–
E-0091163event An antenatal survey is conducted by the Department of Health, the first since 1990. An internationally recognised tool for esti23 Aug 2012–
E-0091144event Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter23 Aug 2012✓

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