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E-0092608event Discovery of sea-shells in Algeria proves that the Sahara was once partially submerged.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092547event A 103-nation conference in Lausanne votes for a complete global ban of the ivory trade.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092510event Three people drown when the ski-boat Saxen goes down near Gordon’s Bay, Cape.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092470event The SA rugby team beats Uruguay 39-3 in a World Cup match in Glasgow, Scotland.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092446event President Habib Ali Bourguiba, of Tunisia, breaks relations with the United Arab Republic (UAR).27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092394event Simon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born in Mauritius.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092281event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Agent in Johannesburg, Sir William Conyngham Greene, leaves Pretoria.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092191event Sir William Cornwallis Harris (41), explorer of the interior of SA, dies in Bombay.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092066event Willie Smith, bantamweight boxing champion of SA, wins the world champion title. (British version).27 Aug 2012–
E-0092064event The railway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique, 3 200 km, is completed.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092005event US President Bill Clinton welcomes South African President Nelson Mandela to the White House.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091855event Nigeria, which gained independence on October 1, 1960, becomes an independent republic within the Commonwealth.24 Aug 2012✓
R-0091816archive History of the Left in South Africa: Writings of Baruch Hirson by Baruch Hirson23 Aug 2012–
E-0090620event Brian Duddy (55), victim of the Planet Hollywood bomb attack, dies in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090476event The US vetoes a UN Security Council resolution criticising South Africa for raids in Angola.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090455event Mark Thatcher’s wife, Diane, and their two children leave SA for the United States.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090388event The first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090366event World War 2: North Africa. The Suez Canal is targeted by an Italian air raid.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090288event The US announces acceptance of a South African offer to send a fighter squadron to Korea.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090255event Somalis celebrate the election of Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, their first president in nearly a decade. 10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090229event Sango Patekile Holomisa, president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA, is born.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090199event SA signs cooperation agreement with the United States concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090176event The first 25 families from Germany arrive at Swakopmund, German South West Africa (Namibia).10 Aug 2012–
E-0091627event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The policy of concentration camps is officially sanctioned by Lord Roberts.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091557event Sir Ernest Oppenheimer establishes the Anglo American Corporation of SA with a capital of £1 million.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091518event Anglo-Boer War: Commandant-General Louis Botha arrives at Babanango, on the Zululand border.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091458event Idi Amin gives Uganda’s 8,000 Asians forty-eight hours to leave the country.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091447event Anglo-Boer War 2:  The British, under Col. Settle, enter Schweizer-Reneke, in western Transvaal.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091395event Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, dies in London.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091394event Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, dies in London.23 Aug 2012–

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