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E-0092524event Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. Date is given as 18 October by brainyhistory.com.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092469event Anglo American announces that it is transferring its main listing to the London Stock Exchange.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092412event US civil rights leader Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr wins the Nobel Peace Prize.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092276event Sir Harry Smith (73), former Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, dies in England.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092193event Stephanie Faure, one of the SA pioneers in reciting and drama, is born in Pretoria.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092156event SA signs treaty relating to certificates of airworthiness for imported aircraft with the United States.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092113event A government notice gazetted on this date provides for the establishment of an Ndebele Tribal Authority.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092018event Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State, is born in Swellendam, Cape Colony.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091990event Jacob Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef, SA landscape painter, dies in Pretoria at the age of 71.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091917event The Netherlands announces partial lifting of sports sanctions; SA sportspersons will no longer require visas.27 Aug 2012–
E-0091848event The first number of Die Transvaler, with H.F. Verwoerd as editor, is published in Johannesburg.24 Aug 2012✓
R-0091815archive The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1960-1970 by South African Democracy Education Trust23 Aug 2012–
E-0090676event Dr Thomas Dowling (65), conductor of the South African Music Association, dies in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090675event Dr Thomas Dowling (65), conductor of the South African Music Association, dies in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090522event A bloodless coup under General André Kolingba ousts President David Dacko of the Central African Republic.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090493event The United States closes its embassies in Ghana and Togo indefinitely because of security threats.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090477event Jacobus Pieter Verster, chief of the South African Air Force (1967-1975), dies in Pretoria.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090469event A UN brokered cease-fire for the Gaza border dispute with Israel is accepted by Egypt.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090448event The Nile River floods its banks in Sudan, leaving more than 160 00 people homeless.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090412event South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay which now falls under the jurisdiction of Namibia.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090392event Gwendoline Lindiwe Mahlangu-Nkabinde, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (2004 to date), is born.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090359event Sir David Baird (71), British general and acting governor of the Cape, dies in Scotland.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090350event The first four planes carrying US food aid reach Balet Huen, Somalia, as hundreds cheer.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090284event Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of the IFP and former minister home affairs, is born. 10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090272event The Jane, 256 ton, sailing from Port Elizabeth to India, is stranded near Matjies River.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090269event Dr John Philip, controversial missionary of the London Missionary Society, dies in Hankey, eastern Cape.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090177event The Galeler, 446 ton, of Norway, is stranded west of Danger Point, near Mossel Bay.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091470event The Constitutional Court rules that President Nelson Mandela exceeded his power by decreasing electoral boundaries.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091310event Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal, speaking at the opening of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091254event Breyten Breytenbach receives the Hertzog Prize for his two poetry volumes, ‘Oorblyfsels: ‘n roudig’ and ‘Papierblom’.23 Aug 2012✓

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