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E-0092620event The Foreign Minister hands over a seventy-six room presidential palace, which cost an estimated R1 .8 m. to build, to Transkei27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092606event Erik Holm, professor of entomology at the University of Pretoria and expert in archaeology, is born in Bethulie, OFS. 27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092585event Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the SRC, Modjadji Teacher Training College, dies in police custody after first being assaulted by27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092583event Member of UK Parliament Donald Anderson, one of the Labour Party’s spokesmen on foreign affairs, told a news conference after a27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092574event Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo discloses that France had agreed to grant the Cameroons internal autonomy and, if supported by a referen27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092563event Percy Albert Wagner, economic geologist and author of articles on diamonds, iron, tin, platinum and the Bushveld Igneous Comple27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092557event An Egyptian passenger cruiser carrying more than 1 300 Muslim pilgrims collides with a cargo ship at the Suez Canal’s sout27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092552event Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda is charged by the UN International Criminal Tribunal with genocide and crimes again27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092525event Prime Minister Louis Botha invites President M.T. Steyn to a meeting aimed at establishing a new political party in the Union o27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092519event William Waldegrave Palmer Selbourne, British high commissioner in SA after Lord Milner, and governor of the Transvaal and Orang27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092489event Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J27 Aug 2012–
E-0092484event Anglo-Boer War: Republican forces under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog attack Jagersfontein and release all prisoners in the gaol before t27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092483event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer Gen. P.A. Cronje shells Mafeking, causing only one casualty. After the bombardment, Silas Molemo, a spok27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092476event MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is cleared in Zimbabwe by the High Court of charges of plotting to kill Mugabe.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092474event The first president of Mauritania, Moktar Ould Daddah, dies in Paris. Some other sources give date as 14 October.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092468event Rebels, backed by foreign troops, enter Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, ending President Pascal Lissouba’s four-month str27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092448event Nelson Mandela’s treason trial starts in the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. He was captured near Howick on 5 August 1962.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092441event Sydney Charles Buxton (80), British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Sussex, England.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092431event Britain’s Queen Victoria issues charter to Cecil John Rhodes and others authorising them to establish the British South Africa27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092417event Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, is awarded the Soviet Order of27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092320event Dr Emil Cohen, geologist and discoverer of the first gold deposits at Lydenburg, northern Transvaal, is born in Denmark.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092314event The corruption case against former deputy president Jacob Zuma is postponed to November 12 in Durban magistrate’s court.   Af27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092299event Anti-apartheid leader Allan Boesak says that the United Democratic Front (UDF) will campaign against South African Army conscri27 Aug 2012–
E-0092277event Frederick Logier (66), organist and music teacher who established the Logier music academy in Cape Town, dies. A composition by27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092222event Nelson Mandela returns to South Africa’s notorious Robben Island and said "the emotions ran wild" when he met prisone27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092212event Defence Minister Botha announces that a missile base for experimental tests and launchings is to be established on the Zululand27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092187event A petition drafted by four prominent Free Burgers under Tielman Roos is submitted to the Lords XVII, concerning grievances prio27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092157event The Mozambique Government, its right-wing guerrilla opponents and South African officials meet in Pretoria to thrash out detail27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092151event The United Nations Security Council meets in emergency session to hear a complaint by Zambia against numerous violations by Sou27 Aug 2012✓
E-0092141event Lord William Selbourne, British high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, open27 Aug 2012✓

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