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Sir George Herbert Farrar, founder and developer of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Ltd is born

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Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.

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Hendrik Hop (54), leader of the expedition to the north of the Orange River, dies in Paarl, CC.

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Sir John Barrow, SA explorer, is born in Dragley Beck, England.

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During a fierce gale in Table Bay, eleven ships are wrecked with severe loss of life.

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Maria van Riebeeck, daughter of Jan and his wife Maria, is born at the Cape.

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Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he

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Up to 5&nbsp;000 children still serve in the Ugandan armed forces even though they are officially banned from enlisting, a seni

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Sipho Ngomane (23) of South Africa wins the 80th Comrades Marathon in Durban. He is the second youngest ever to win the rac

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Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical practitioner assassinated with his wife by state agents in 1986, is awarded the Order of the Su

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Andrew Kelehe, police detective from Mafikeng, wins the Comrades race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban in the second-fastest

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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses against Zimbabwe 0-1 in a home game.

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President Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

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The Russian athlete Dmitry Grishin wins the Comrades and equals Bruce Fordyce’s 10-year-old record.

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The Secretary-General issues his final report on the question of South Africa.

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The ANC begins an open-ended campaign of public protest with a day of rallies, work stoppages and threats of a crippling genera

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A crowd in the Netherlands welcomes African National Congress leader , who thanks them for staunch Dutch support for the anti-a

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Concludes a reciprocal radio agreement with the Republic of Chile.

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Thousands of Blacks stay-away to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1976 Soweto upheavals.

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World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, organised by the United Nations in cooperation

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John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren

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James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape.

This day in history

On the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, police bar forty-seven local and overseas journalists from entering Soweto and tear

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An ANC spokesman in Lusaka calls for increased participation by White sympathisers in the Black emancipation struggle.

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The ANC issues a call for the intensification of the liberation struggle on all fronts, but demonstrations on the anniversary o

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Six PAC members, all from Itumbi Camp, Southern Tanzania, appear before a magistrate’s court in Dar es Salaam, charged with the

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A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or

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Internal Security Amendment Act No 79 commences.

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When secondary school students in Soweto start protesting against the use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction for certain sub

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The Minister of Economic Affairs, J.C. Heunis, announces that the government has agreed to increase the education and industria

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Sir George Herbert Farrar, founder and developer of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Ltd is born

Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.

Hendrik Hop (54), leader of the expedition to the north of the Orange River, dies in Paarl, CC.

Sir John Barrow, SA explorer, is born in Dragley Beck, England.

During a fierce gale in Table Bay, eleven ships are wrecked with severe loss of life.

Maria van Riebeeck, daughter of Jan and his wife Maria, is born at the Cape.

Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he

Up to 5&amp;nbsp;000 children still serve in the Ugandan armed forces even though they are officially banned from enlisting, a seni

Sipho Ngomane (23) of South Africa wins the 80th Comrades Marathon in Durban. He is the second youngest ever to win the rac

Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical practitioner assassinated with his wife by state agents in 1986, is awarded the Order of the Su

Andrew Kelehe, police detective from Mafikeng, wins the Comrades race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban in the second-fastest

Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses against Zimbabwe 0-1 in a home game.

President Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

The Russian athlete Dmitry Grishin wins the Comrades and equals Bruce Fordyce’s 10-year-old record.

The Secretary-General issues his final report on the question of South Africa.

The ANC begins an open-ended campaign of public protest with a day of rallies, work stoppages and threats of a crippling genera

A crowd in the Netherlands welcomes African National Congress leader , who thanks them for staunch Dutch support for the anti-a

Concludes a reciprocal radio agreement with the Republic of Chile.

Thousands of Blacks stay-away to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1976 Soweto upheavals.

World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, organised by the United Nations in cooperation

John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren

James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape.

On the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, police bar forty-seven local and overseas journalists from entering Soweto and tear

An ANC spokesman in Lusaka calls for increased participation by White sympathisers in the Black emancipation struggle.

The ANC issues a call for the intensification of the liberation struggle on all fronts, but demonstrations on the anniversary o

Six PAC members, all from Itumbi Camp, Southern Tanzania, appear before a magistrate’s court in Dar es Salaam, charged with the

A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or

Internal Security Amendment Act No 79 commences.

When secondary school students in Soweto start protesting against the use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction for certain sub

The Minister of Economic Affairs, J.C. Heunis, announces that the government has agreed to increase the education and industria

Up to 5 000 children still serve in the Ugandan armed forces even though they are officially banned from enlisting, a seni