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E-0092033event A train accident at Effingham in Natal claims the lives of 88 people.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092010event Sir de Villiers Graaff (86), former leader of the United Party, dies.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091899event Die Volksblad, Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Bloemfontein for the first time.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091780event Edward Perkins is appointed as the first Black ambassador to South Africa.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091773event Radclyffe M. Cadman is elected national leader of the New Republic Party (NRP).23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091764event Botswana, previously known as Bechuanaland, achieves independence (within the Commonwealth) from Britain.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090464event Prof. S.F. N. Gie becomes secretary of education of the Union of SA.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090416event The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Congo in a home game.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090391event Marilyn Martin, director of the South African National Art Museum, is born.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090386event General De la Rey protests the British mistreatment of women and children.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090339event Malawi switches over to a new decimal currency, with as unit the kwacha.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090270event Jacobus Nicolaas Boshof, second president of the Orange Free State, is inaugurated.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091604event The Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident is signed in Vienna.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091510event The US Senate approves legislation lifting US government economic sanctions against SA.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091487event Britain and France submit Suez Canal dispute to the UN Security Council.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091476event Liberian rebel leader Sekou Conneh returns to the country from Guinea-Conakry.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091467event Dingaan Thobela, lightweight of SA, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) title.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091450event Dr Anton Rupert establishes the Voorbrand Tobacco Company in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091436event Government releases its White Paper on the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091393event Judge James Buchanan, state attorney of the ZAR in 1872, is born.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091392event Judge James Buchanan, state attorney of the ZAR in 1872, is born.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091373event Emperor Bokassa I is overthrown in a bloodless coup in the Central African Republic.  23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091356event The United Nations (UN) General Assembly admits thirteen African countries and Cyprus.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091264event Fox Odendaal, first president of the Performing Arts Council Transvaal, is born.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091253event President Thabo Mbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Rand Afrikaans University.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091248event The Labour Party decides to disband after twenty-nine years in existence.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090004event The 4th Pan-African Congress meets in New York City, USA.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089957event The Department of Posts and Telecommunications dismisses 14 000 striking postal workers.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089788event The Springbok rugby team loses 24-27 against New Zealand in Johannesburg.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089766event Gertrude Shope, leader of the ANC Women’s League, is born in Johannesburg.10 Aug 2012✓

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