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E-0090291event W. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, Pan-Africanist activist and founder of the NAACP, dies in Accra, Ghana.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090183event Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of the SA police, is born in Ermelo, Tvl.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091699event Dirk Mostert, member of the ‘Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging’ (ATKV) (Afrikaans Language and Cultural Organisation) and pol23 Aug 2012–
E-0091698event Dirk Mostert, member of the ‘Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging’ (ATKV) (Afrikaans Language and Cultural Organisation) and pol23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091635event The fishing trawler Disa is sunk after a collision at Green Point, Cape Town, killing ten people.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091547event Breakthrough reached at peace talks in Kenya between Sudanese government and the SPLA over key issues.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091502event SA signs treaty with Malawi providing for the training of nurses from Malawi in South Africa.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091493event The United States government officially advises American companies operating in South Africa to negotiate with (unregistered) A23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091291event WWI: The Cape Corps, two infantry battalions of Cape Coloured men, captures Square Hill in Palestine.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091286event The Neptune, with 288 convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay amid strong resistance of Cape inhabitants.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091265event Anglo-Boer War 2: The first British Army contingent from India embarks at Bombay for South Africa.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091238event Maria Helena Gertruida Christina Lee (49) is executed for the murder on her lover, Alwyn Smith.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090148event Prime Minister John Vorster discloses Government proposals for a new constitutional dispensation. They involve the creation of10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090135event The British colonial government of Kenya broadcasts a call to Mau Mau nationalist guerrilla fighters to surrender.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090132event Judge John Stephen Curlewis (77), Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090112event National Security Amendment Act No 24, empowering the Minister of Justice to lift banning orders, commences.10 Aug 2012–
E-0090097event Beauclerk Upington, advocate, politician, yachtsman and president of the South African Football (Soccer) Association (1913-22),10 Aug 2012–
E-0090047event Chief Commandant C.R. de Wet, back in the Free State, sets up his headquarters at Renosterpoort.   10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090024event African National Congress headquarters would remain in Zambia "until the day of liberation", says Zambian President K10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090009event Surfer Shaun Thomson, winner of the World Championship in Hawaii in 1977, is born in Durban.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089999event Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, is born in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089975event The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089759event Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089739event Nelson Mandela is admitted to the Tygerberg hospital, suffering from a lung ailment, later diagnosed as tuberculosis.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089709event Rebels fighting Congolese President Laurent Kabila capture a power transformer in western Congo, sending the capital, Kinshasa,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091158event The government launches "Operation Iron Fist", imposing curfews, roadblocks, house-to-house searches and fencing off23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091051event Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics14 Aug 2012–
E-0091038event An Olympic opening ceremony, in which the South African team takes part, dazzle downtown Sydney, Australia.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090990event A German Tupolef plane and an American Starlifter collide off the Namibian coast, killing thirty-three people.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090880event Dr Gerrit Viljoen, first rector of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), is born in Cape Town.14 Aug 2012✓

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