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E-0091926event The Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape for settlement. 27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091923event The Employment Equity Register, aimed at eliminating unfair discrimination in employment, is released at a briefing by the Mini27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091908event The Prime Minister appoints fifty-six members to the President’s Council, comprising forty-one Whites, seven Coloureds, seven I27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091876event President Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front party wins a majority in the parliamentary elections. It is the nation’s first24 Aug 2012✓
E-0091792event A fire has destroyed the historic Wanderers Cricket club in Johannesburg during the night, reducing to ash historic documents,23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090645event Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se14 Aug 2012–
E-0090609event The Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation plus Operating Agreement, to which SA is a party, is signed14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090559event Sir Harry Smith proclaims the territory between the Orange and Vaal Rivers British territory, discounting protests by Voortrekk14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090483event The International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed a resolution barring any athlete from the Olympics who competes in South Afric14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090217event The rugby match between SA and the British Isles in Johannesburg ends in a draw with ten points each.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090197event Three thousand people march to the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, to demand the establi10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091680event The Industrial Development Corporation, Sagem SA, and the SAPS sign an agreement to implement an Automated Fingerprint Identifi23 Aug 2012–
E-0091679event The Industrial Development Corporation, Sagem SA, and the SAPS sign an agreement to implement an Automated Fingerprint Identifi23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091525event The constitutional conference on Mauritius ends in London, deciding that the country should become an independent state within23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091255event The South African Gymnastics Federation announces in Johannesburg that the first ever National Gymnastic Games will be taking p23 Aug 2012–
E-0091249event The South African Foreign Affairs Department denies Iranian media reports that the government has endorsed Iran’s human rights23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090126event Jacobus Hoendervangers (religious name: Petrus), first resident priest in the OFS, is born in Steenbergen, North Brabant, the N10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090075event SA wins the Tri-Nations rugby series by beating Australia 29-15 on the Ellis Park field, Johannesburg.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090060event Prime Minister Vorster officially opens the Orange-Fish River Tunnel, believed to be the world’s longest continuous tunnel (c.510 Aug 2012✓
E-0089898event Born this day, Luc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causing AIDS, the disease with10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089703event Foreign Minister Roelof (Pik) Botha said that the South African Government (SAG) had accepted "in principle" the repo10 Aug 2012–
E-0091166event Morocco recalls its ambassador to South Africa after Pretoria formally recognised the pro-independence government in the annexe23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090997event Holy Communion is served at the Cape by residing pastor Johan (Joan) van Arckel for the first time. 14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090956event Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts issues a proclamation calling on the Republican forces still in the field to surrender.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090931event South Africa’s new Ambassador to the United Nations, Adriaan (Riaan) Eksteen, presents his credentials to the secretary-general14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090888event Following an international campaign for clemency, the Bloemfontein Appeal Court overrules the death sentence on James Mange and14 Aug 2012–
E-0090884event The Australian Cricket Board decides to withdraw its invitation to the South African Cricket Team to tour Australia.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090813event The government was implicitly involved in farm attacks, the union’s national safety and security committee chairperson Danie du14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090791event General Louis Botha announces the South African government’s decision to carry the war into German South West Africa.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0084017event South Africa is declared a republic, independent and outside the Commonwealth. C.R. Swart, the former Governor-General, is swor25 May 2012–

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