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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-0089836event Maluleke George, the deputy defence minister, attends the 90th commemoration of the Battle of Delville Wood in France. During t10 Aug 2012–
E-0089757event Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at Otjimbingue, German West Africa.   He wa10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089726event WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089701event Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha, in Vienna to discuss signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, says South Africa has th10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091049event Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at Otjimbingue, German West Africa.   He wa14 Aug 2012–
E-0091037event Former Umkhonto We Sizwe member and senior foreign affairs ministry official, Robert McBride, who was held in Mozambique for si14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091027event In an important break-through a National Peace Accord is signed by all major political organisations at a conference held at th14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091001event Archibald Lamont, minister of religion, politician and mayor of Durban from 1929-1932, is born in Port Babbabtyne, Bute Island,14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090954event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant-Colonel R.G. Kekewich arrives in Kimberley to assess the military situation and to advise the new14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090934event President P.W. Botha visits Mozambique and in talks with President Joaquim Chissano, Botha pledges not to support RENAMO, to de14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090910event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The governor of Portuguese East Africa, J.J. Machado, invites Pres. Kruger to stay in the official residenc14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090907event Abraham Esau, Calvinian Coloured leader and martyr is born in Kenhardt, Cape Colony.  He aided the British Imperial cause duri14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090885event Eleven rioting miners are shot by police and twenty-seven injured at the Western Deep Levels mine, Carletonville, in a confront14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090831event John Tengo Jabavu (62), newspaper editor and member of the board of the Fort Hare University, dies in Fort Hare.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090825event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Representatives of the ZAR and the Free State governments meet in Nelspruit and decide to allow President K14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090815event Frans Bresler, landdros of Graaff-Reinet, confers with Lieutenant-Governor Francis Dundas in Algoa Bay on the withdrawal of Bri14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090806event A two-day follow-up conference on Educational Assistance to disadvantaged South Africans is organised in New York by the United14 Aug 2012–
E-0090797event Prime Minister B.J. Vorster announces the arrest of a fully trained KGB agent, Yuri N. Loginov, in Johannesburg. He is on a spe14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090754event The German Consulate in Cape Town packs up after South Africa’s official declaration of war on Germany the previous day.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090739event The bitter debate over the power of central government in relation to the provinces is reopened when the Constitutional Court r14 Aug 2012–
E-0090733event Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors14 Aug 2012–
E-0092835event The historical manor Leeuwenhof in Cape Town, which later became the official home of the Cape Province administrator, is bough28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092832event Nqetho, Qwabe chief, forces the Rev. J.W. Shepstone to abandon the Morley mission station. Nqetho was murdered in December of t28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092823event The United Nations celebrates its 50th anniversary. The celebration is the largest gathering of world leaders in history, with28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092821event In a joint statement, Government and the PAC say they agreed on the urgent need for the establishment of a more representative28 Aug 2012–
E-0092816event National Union of Mineworkers’ leader Cyril Ramaphosa is awarded the Olof Palme prize for “courage and wisdom in the solidarity28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092810event Further trouble erupts at a funeral in Soweto when a crowd of 4,000 attacks police. Retaliatory fire causes deaths and injuries28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084099event In a meeting at the White House President Thabo Mbeki urges President George W. Bush to deliver more African aid support. The t25 May 2012✓
E-0084073event The government announces in a White Paper plans to re-organise the administration of South-West Africa, which will give Pretori25 May 2012✓

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