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E-0090379event NG Kerk theologian Willie Jonker (77) dies at a Strand retirement home in the Western Cape. He will be remembered for having be10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090321event The bill for setting free the slaves in the British dominions receives the royal assent. Slavery is to cease at a certain date,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090320event Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co10 Aug 2012–
E-0090287event The Rev. J.F. Naudé (75), DRC minister and one of six delegates who voted against the signing of the peace agreement in10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090216event D. Olewagen and J. Nel are executed by firing squad for treason in the Cape Colony, because they acted as horse guards for an i10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090198event An American post-graduate student, Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, is dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Guguletu,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091657event On the same day that Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula says South Africa is enjoying better safety than in the past23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091654event On the last day of the Athens Paralympic Games, Malcolm Pringle follows up his 800m golden world record with a silver medal in23 Aug 2012–
E-0091651event Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak wins his fourth six-year term, taking nearly 94 percent of the vote in a referendum on his pre23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091634event Jordan’s King Hussein and Al Fatah guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat meet in Cairo with ten Arab chiefs of state and sign agreemen23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091538event Winnie Mandela is formally charged with four counts of kidnapping and of assault, and will stand trial with seven others in con23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091505event President F W de Klerk arrives in Washington at the start of a three-day visit, stressing that his main aim is not the lifting23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091459event The Prime Minister pays a secret visit (22-23 September) to the Ivory Coast in pursuit of his policy of seeking dialogue with B23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091346event King Edward VII signs the South African Law, providing for 121 members of parliament, of which ten ministers, in London. The So23 Aug 2012–
E-0091345event King Edward VII signs the South African Law, providing for 121 members of parliament, of which ten ministers, in London. The So23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091299event The Prime Minister wishes the new Mozambique government well, but warns that South Africa will have to act in self-defence if M23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091289event Cecil John Rhodes makes his first will, leaving all his possessions to the British secretary of state for the colonies, in trus23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091227event The Alfred Dock in Table Bay is officially opened by Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091226event About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th23 Aug 2012–
E-0091223event A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090115event Fana Nzimande, IFP supporting headman, his wife and four children between the ages of four to fifteen, are shot dead in their h10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090087event Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite the concessions made by the ZAR in its final proposal, Sir A. Milner urges the despatch of an expedit10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090021event Gas belching from the volcanic Lake Nyos in the remote mountains of Cameroon kills more than 1,200 people and injures 500.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090019event The United States and Somalia sign an agreement giving US naval and air forces access to military facilities in the East Africa10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089981event Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089875event The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089795event The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089756event Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089755event The first of the four Old Mutual Soweto Marathon Schools Challenge races takes place at Kagiso, in Soweto, with close to 1 50010 Aug 2012✓
E-0089716event The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (GRA) is founded in Paarl, as a direct outcome of the efforts by Pannevis to have the Bible10 Aug 2012✓

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