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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✓
E-0090372event The National Party wins two uncertain victories in by-elections, with sharply reduced majorities in both seats.10 Aug 2012–
E-0090355event Following facilitation by former president Nelson Mandela, the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi is signed10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090347event South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to "the people of Moscow".10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090285event Egypt and Britain sign a treaty providing for withdrawal of British forces except in the Suez Canal area.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090204event The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation ca10 Aug 2012–
E-0091659event Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary and progenitor of the Pellissier family in South Africa, is born in France.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091608event The Star reports that Roelf Meyer, deputy minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, identified fourteen urban areas,23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091588event Sidney Mendelssohn, collector of Africana and author of the South African Bibliography in 1910, dies in London.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091586event Young physicist of Switzerland, Einstein publishes his daring new theory, known as the special theory of relativity23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091545event Thirty-four passengers and four crewmembers die when a Spanish plane crashes into a hill on the Moroccan coast.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091540event Addressing the United Nations, Nelson Mandela calls for a lifting of all existing economic sanctions against South Africa.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091533event Batandwa Ndondo (22), SRC University of Transkei, is shot by police on the outskirts of Cala, Transkei.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091529event Civilian rule is established in Ghana after the first military coup under Jerry Rawlings on 4 June, 1979.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091517event Dr Johannes Frederik (Hans) Janse van Rensburg, commandant-general of the ‘Ossewabrandwag’ (OB) movement and administrator of t23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091503event Dutch authorities launch an informal "fact-finding" inquiry into the anti-apartheid activities of Klaas de Jonge.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091464event Diederik Johannes Opperman, Afrikaans poet, dramatist, litterateur, and professor of the University of Stellenbosch, dies in St23 Aug 2012✓

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