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E-0091443event Shaka, Zulu chief and founder of the Zulu empire, is murdered by his two half-brothers Dingane and Mhlangana. Dingane assumes t23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091438event Wheelchair athlete Ernst van Dyk, cut off from a certain gold medal by Mexico’s Saul Mendoza in the 1 500m final Athens Pa23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091386event Thirty passengers are injured and admitted to various hospitals when a taxi crashes into the back of another taxi on William Ni23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091372event Prime Minister Vorster announces that he will resign shortly for health reasons, but, at the request of his colleagues, he will23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091279event Dr Mark Erdman and his wife, Arnaz Mehta, discovers a coelacanth in a fish market in Manado on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesi23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091276event William Ledwaba (16) is killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. 18 September, given as the date of23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091268event The notorious Foster gang under leadership of William Foster, who stole and raided from 1912 to 1914, commit suicide in Johanne23 Aug 2012✓
E-0090170event Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090169event SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090010event Mandisi Bongani Mabuto Mphalwa, Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089993event Liberia’s main warring factions signed a peace accord calling for a cease-fire after more than five years of civil war and the10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089967event William Henry Bell, musician, composer and first director of the South African College of Music, known to his students as ‘Dadd10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089932event Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of10 Aug 2012–
E-0089931event Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089910event Aliens and Travellers Control Act No 29, providing for the control and monitoring of aliens, and for refusal of entry, commence10 Aug 2012–
E-0089909event Aliens and Travellers Control Act No 29, providing for the control and monitoring of aliens, and for refusal of entry, commence10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089860event Dr. Philip Blaiberg dies in South Africa, 19 months and 15 days after receiving a heart transplant, a survival record at the ti10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089801event Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag10 Aug 2012–
E-0089790event Carlos the Jackal, freelance terrorist, is arrested in Sudan and flown to Paris for trial. He is eventually sentenced to life i10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089786event At least 150 Blacks die in violence in Black townships near Johannesburg, between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Par10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089700event President PW Botha says the 1989 elections will be scrapped and strong measures will be taken against groups having talks with10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091171event Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag23 Aug 2012–
E-0091170event Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag23 Aug 2012–
E-0091092event Carlos the Jackal, freelance terrorist, is arrested in Sudan and flown to Paris for trial. He is eventually sentenced to life i14 Aug 2012–
E-0091088event At least 150 Blacks die in violence in Black townships near Johannesburg, between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Par14 Aug 2012–
E-0090999event Transvaal burghers shoot Jacobus du Toit on horseback. He refused to stop when challenged. He is wounded and the horse killed.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090981event At least six persons are killed and 400 shacks destroyed during a night attack on a squatter camp in the township of Thokoza.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090883event General Jan Christiaan Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies on his farm Doornkloof, near Pretoria. The Star, 04 Sept14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090873event Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, is born in Aliwal North district, CC.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090869event Simon Mann is sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwean court on weapons charges.   The two pilots get sixteen months14 Aug 2012✓

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