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E-0092737event George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, dies in Cape Town.28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092686event Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia, businessman, community leader and staunch opponent of the Asiatic Registration Act, born in poverty in28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092664event The Prime Minister holds discussions on constitutional developments with the chairman and other members of the Coloured Persons27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092649event Jomo Kenyatta, freedom fighter, first prime minister and later president of Kenya, is born presumably on this date.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092643event The corner stone of the oldest church building in Transvaal, the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk in Potchefstroom, is laid.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092637event The national prosecuting authority (NPA) rules that a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert, on27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092607event Elsabé Antoinette Murray Steytler (Elsa Joubert), SA author and winner of several awards, is born in Paarl, CP.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092604event The first branch of the Suid-Afrikaanse Vrouefederasie (SAVF), a women’s welfare and cultural organisation which comes into bei27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092579event The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), second university with its seat in Johannesburg (after the University of the Witwatersrand27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092554event The Patriotic Movement of Ivory Coast, a newly formed rebel group that launched a violent uprising in September, signs a truce27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092530event Sibusiso Joel Ndebele, premier of KwaZulu-Natal since 22 April 2004, is born at Shiyane, in KwaZulu-Natal.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092505event The African National Congress agrees to “use its good offices” to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby i27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092453event The results of the Transkei general elections are announced. The ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) wins sixty-27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092415event Scientists have identified the mysterious disease (Green Monkey, a variant of hemorrhagic viral fever) that has caused more tha27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092395event Dr Carl W.L. Pappe (59), botanist, physician and curator of the South African Museum, dies in Cape Town.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092389event The Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches after the general synod had renounced apartheid.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092388event The Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches after the general synod had renounced apartheid.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092337event The Minister of Labour says that the government will neither abolish job reservation nor recognise Black trade unions.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092295event The General Assembly adopts resolution 1881(XVIII) requesting the Government of South Africa to abandon the "Rivonia trial27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092218event General Constand Viljoen, Chief of South Africa’s Armed Forces admits on television that the military, without government autho27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092209event Uganda becomes an independent republic within the British Commonwealth after nearly seventy years of British rule, after having27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092190event The Rev. Stephanus Jacobus du Toit, enthusiastic but controversial champion of Afrikaans, is born in Daljosafat, Cape Colony.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092144event Ishmael Booker Mompati, teacher, musician and composer, dies of a heart attack while conducting his school choir during a compe27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092132event Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat starts antiretroviral therapy but lives with the guilt of having access to27 Aug 2012–
E-0092131event Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat starts antiretroviral therapy but lives with the guilt of having access to27 Aug 2012–
E-0092076event Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi becomes Kenya’s second president, following the death of Jomo Kenyatta on 22 August 1978.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092044event US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092021event Prof. Johannes Jacobus Smith, professor in Afrikaans at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Tulbach, western Cape.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091929event Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter notifies the British that his territory, west of the Drakensberg, will remain inde27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091907event The South African Barbarians rugby team completes its controversial tour of Britain with minimal disruption but against a backg27 Aug 2012✓

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