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E-0091553event A total of 1 004 persons consisting of 849 burghers and boys, 152 women and girls, two Coloureds and one Black man, cross the b23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091534event Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa is launched to articulate the interests of tribal chiefs and act as an extra-pa23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091446event Anglo-Boer War 2: As result of a military notice on this date, the first two refugee camps are established at Pretoria and Bloe23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091437event Australia comes first in the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, winning 199 medals; England wins 136, Canada 99 and SA ends fi23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091389event Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys’ High, Oscar Pistorius, falls coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amp23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091375event F. W. de Klerk is inaugurated as state president of South Africa. The date of 22 September, given by some sources, is not corre23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091335event Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer, settler and member of the Farewell expedition to Shaka with a view to open up an ivory trade with23 Aug 2012–
E-0091334event Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer, settler and member of the Farewell expedition to Shaka with a view to open up an ivory trade with23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091293event Adv. Dirk Cornelius du Toit, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 199923 Aug 2012✓
E-0091285event Josephus Suasso de Lima (46), first editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, ‘De Verzamelaar’, dies in Cape Tow23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091270event Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi, Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999 and former premier of th23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091260event Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin (57), secretary of the Orphan Chamber in Cape Town and collector of books and paintings, dies in Ca23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091227event The Alfred Dock in Table Bay is officially opened by Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091226event About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th23 Aug 2012–
E-0091223event A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090115event Fana Nzimande, IFP supporting headman, his wife and four children between the ages of four to fifteen, are shot dead in their h10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090039event The British settlement in Sierra Leone is founded. Britain says it is to provide a home in Africa for freed slaves and homeless10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090033event Gen. Constand Viljoen is re-elected as leader of the Vryheidsfront with a bare majority of one when he receives twenty-two vote10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089981event Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089869event In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite of abho10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089729event Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089697event The Foreign Minister of France said at a press conference in Nairobi that no new contract for arms sales to South Africa could10 Aug 2012–
E-0090980event More than 35 000 people force central Cape Town to a standstill as they march peacefully from St George’s Cathedral to the city14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090933event South African riot police use tear gas and whips in Soweto as unrest continue. A sweeping ban on meetings critical of the Gover14 Aug 2012–
E-0090876event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Pres. Paul Kruger crosses the Transvaal border on his way to Lourenço Marques, from where he leaves for Eu14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090761event Bishop Desmond Tutu is consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the first Black head of South Africa’s Angli14 Aug 2012✓
E-0092817event At least twenty-five people are reported to have died in violence between members of the United Democratic Party and Inkatha in28 Aug 2012✓
E-0084038event A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy25 May 2012✓
E-0083998event Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa25 May 2012✓
E-0083927event Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as first Black prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as the country is briefly known prior to i25 May 2012✓

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