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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-0091221event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t23 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-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-0089835event The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t10 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-0089721event Anglo-Boer War 2:  End of the ‘first De Wet hunt’. De Wet’s entire force crosses the unoccupied Olifants Nek Pass near Rusten10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089695event During a visit to Paraguay by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (13-18 Aug.), four agreements on South Afr10 Aug 2012–
E-0091097event The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.14 Aug 2012–
E-0091043event The soccer race has started to get "Winning Team 2010" off the ground and ready for action when South Africa hosts th14 Aug 2012–
E-0091012event Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to inquire into all aspects14 Aug 2012✓
E-0091008event The first cases of Spanish Flu, also called ‘Great flu’ are diagnosed in Durban, starting the influenza epidemic in SA that kil14 Aug 2012–
E-0091007event The first cases of Spanish Flu, also called ‘Great flu’ are diagnosed in Durban, starting the influenza epidemic in SA that kil14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090975event B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090974event Venda is declared independent in terms of the Republic of Venda Constitution Act 9 of 1979. Chief Mphephu is named as the first14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090751event Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090741event The biggest gathering of world leaders in history takes place at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York 150 heads of14 Aug 2012–
E-0090700event At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084041event Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc25 May 2012✓
E-0083913event Sandile, Xhosa chief born in the Ciskei in 1820, is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Capt. J. Lonsdal25 May 2012✓
E-0083830event Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the25 May 2012✓
E-0081973event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, tells the House of Commons that every effort is being made23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081851event At the celebrations of twenty-five years of independence of Zimbabwe, Pres. Mugabe, who has led his country for the past twenty13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081830event In return for the release of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) agrees to take part in negotiations for go13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081814event President Mandela, present in his capacity as chief of the Temba clan, rather than Head of State, inaugurates the Council of Tr13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081794event General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally has the Germans on the ru13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081764event Kenyans dominate the 106th Boston Marathon, winning both men’s and women’s titles and capturing the four top spots and six of t13 Apr 2012✓

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