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E-0092730event During the Pretoria centenary M.W. Pretorius, grandson of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and great-grandson of Voortrekker leader A28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092660event The Minister of Justice banns all meetings to protest against arrest, trial or conviction of any person.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092645event Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch (66), botanist and discoverer of the welwitschia plant in Namibia, dies in London.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092618event Police jail dozens of government opponents not previously detained, including The World’s editor, Percy Qoboza. Banning orders27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092578event Burundi prime minister, Léopold Biha, is wounded in an attack on the King’s palace by army mutineers.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092561event The first church building in Stellenbosch, erected at request of Governor Simon van der Stel, is consecrated.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092538event Elections end in Gazankulu. Professor Hudson Ntsanwisi is unanimously re-elected leader of the Gazankulu Legislative Assembly.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092521event Karen Blixen, Danish author of Out of Africa who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, is born.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092421event Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092381event Jeremy and Joan Brickhill of the ANC are seriously injured in a motor bomb attack in Harare, Zimbabwe.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092360event Germany declares South West Africa a German protectorate, though the important port of Walvis Bay remained a British possession27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092345event Political assassination: Jeff Wabena, ANC, unionist, is shot dead at the ANC branch meeting in Mdantsane, Ciskei.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092326event Prof. D.F. Malherbe delivers a historical lecture in Wellington, dealing with the question whether Afrikaans is a dialect or a27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092124event Inkatha withdraws again from the Constitutional Assembly, indicating it is considering reviving its demand for international me27 Aug 2012–
E-0092123event Inkatha withdraws again from the Constitutional Assembly, indicating it is considering reviving its demand for international me27 Aug 2012–
E-0092091event National Eagle Day, organised by the Raptor Conservation Group and short-term insurer SA Eagle,is celebrated.27 Aug 2012–
E-0092028event Essop Jassat, medical practitioner and political community worker, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. During the apartheid era27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091967event It is announced that South African writer Nadine Gordimer is to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091953event The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray Mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark.27 Aug 2012–
E-0091952event The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray Mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091919event Britain announces a decision to write off the debt of six African countries, a package of millions of pounds. 27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091905event Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces in Umtata that the Transkei will become fully independent on 26 October 1976.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091861event A report compiled by the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee provides detailed evidence of systematic torture as an integral f24 Aug 2012✓
E-0091732event KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana and Ciskei’s Oupa Gqozo reject the recor23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090613event The new constitution of South Africa, providing for an executive state president, a parliament with three councils, a central c14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090560event Britain signs a peace treaty with the Zulus, banishing Cetshwayo and dividing Zululand in thirteen separate chiefdoms under a B14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090523event The Southern African Development Bank, financed primarily by South Africa, is formally established with headquarters in Midrand14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090508event Anglo-Boer War 2: Two Australians of the Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, Lieutenant Wylly and Private Bisdee, display exceptional b14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090427event Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under General French occupies Waterval-Boven and Waterval-Onder in eastern Transvaal.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090424event The Rosebud, 341 Ton, en route from Calcutta to London, is stranded at Dias Beach, Mossel Bay.14 Aug 2012✓

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