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E-0092375event Voters in Egypt participate in a referendum to elect vice president Hosni Mubarak as the new president, one week after the assa27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092270event A large crowd spends the night outside the Durban magistrate’s court in an all-night vigil for former deputy president Jacob Zu27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092265event Haitian leader Lt Gen. Raoul Cedras resigns, paving the way for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (now resi27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092254event President P.W. Botha makes a number of changes in the allocation of portfolios, but retains the post of Minister of Defence him27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092253event B.J. Vorster is sworn in as State President in Pretoria, the occasion being marked by a display of the country’s military force27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092208event The United Arab Republic informs the United Nations that it has banned South African ships from entering UAR ports, and that, w27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092146event Rachel Isabella (Tibbie) Steyn, widow of President M.T. Steyn of the former Orange Free State Republic, is honoured by the FAK27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092109event SWAPO claims it was not responsible for placing landmines in the Caprivi Strip and that the guerrillas were not operating from27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092080event Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t27 Aug 2012–
E-0092047event Louis le Grange states that the South African Defence Force units will be deployed increasingly in a supportive role to the pol27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092009event The death toll reaches at least 100 in Algeria after a two-day surge of massacres attributed to the Armed Islamic Group.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092003event The Mozambique government and RENAMO rebel leaders sign an historic peace accord, and a cease-fire to end the sixteen-year civi27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091975event South African Pieter de Waal has been appointed as head of the sales and marketing division for BMW Motorrad worldwide – the27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091949event According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091781event The ANC reports that it has been approached by an intermediary, acting for a SA cabinet minister, to talk about the possibility23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091721event The Electoral College elects Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster as State President by 173 votes to the nineteen cast for Sir de23 Aug 2012–
E-0091720event The Electoral College elects Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster as State President by 173 votes to the nineteen cast for Sir de23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090654event Speaking at the end of a two-day fact-finding mission by three ministers of the European Community (EC), United Kingdom Foreign14 Aug 2012–
E-0090615event A march in which thousands of people take part to protest against councillors, leads to violence in the Vaal Triangle. The marc14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090611event John Wiley, former leader of the South African Party, is elected as National Party member for Simonstown, defeating the PFP can14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090610event Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert is chosen as the Leader of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) in succession to Colin14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090454event The number of people who discovered they were fraudulently married has risen to 779, according to the department of home affair14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090449event Troops allied with the government of Congo capture the strategic port town of Matadi from rebel forces trying to oust President14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090358event Abraham Faure, clergyman and author moving spirit behind the convocation of the first DRC synod in 1824, is born in Stellenbosc10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090297event A coup attempt fails in African nation of Chad. The government accuses Egypt of playing role in the attempt and breaks diplomat10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090211event Christiaan Andries van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090205event Mark Thatcher, SA business man and son of Margaret Thatcher, is arrested by the Scorpions on the suspicion of providing about $10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091605event The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091488event The Department of Native Affairs is renamed as the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, with its main aim to pro23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091440event Catherine Labuschagne 25 makes history when she becomes the first woman fighter pilot in the world to fly a Gripen fighter jet23 Aug 2012–

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