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A referendum in Zaire, in which women vote for the first time, approves a new constitution.
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General Law Amendment Act No 80 commences.
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As a step towards independence, Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by Britain.
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Carel du Plessis, SA rugby flank and trainer is born.
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Alleged date the Suppression of Communism Act, No 44 of 1950 is passed in parliament. 26 June is given in several sources, and
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WWI: The first Battle of the Somme begins. It lasted five months and the death toll of more than 1 million resulted in an allie
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The Rev. Andries A. Louw, first minister in Fauresmith, OFS, dies in Paarl, Cape Province.
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Godfrey Nakene, educationist and school principal in whose honour Orlando High School was renamed Nakene High School, is born i
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Charles Berman, mine medical officer and expert on primary liver cancer, is born in Poreveys, Lithuania.
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The Lutheran church in Kroondal, near Rustenburg, is consecrated.
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Dr Theodorus Wassenaar, Afrikaans poet, author and cultural leader, is born in Hendrina, Eastern Transvaal.
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, in charge of affairs in Rhodesia, refuses entry to 110 Trekkers of the Adendorff trek, who congregat
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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, is born in Burgersdorp, CC
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The Rev. Andrew Murray, one of the first Scottish ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Graaff-Reinet.
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Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan, first premier of Southern Rhodesia, is born in King William’s Town.
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener, commander of the British forces during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born.
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Dick King returns by boat to Natal after his ten-days horse-ride of 960km to Grahamstown.
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The Free Mason Movement is founded in London. It was introduced into SA from the Netherlands in 1772.
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The Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid framework, of which SA is a member, is signed in Cotonou, Benin.
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The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of SA, soiling more than 19 000 penguins. This resulted in the wor
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In the Central African Republic, soldiers fire on foreign peacekeepers in the third major rebellion since May.
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A service in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an
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Some 2 500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN. Secretary-General
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The General Assembly approves the credentials of the South African delegation, after decades as an international outcast.
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Nigeria’s military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, annuls results of presidential elections and halts a return to democrac
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A peace summit (23-24 June) brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by
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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston.
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A Defence Amendment Bill provides for a re-organisation of the defence system intended to give the South African Defence Force
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The Prime Minister warns the country that confrontation awaits it if his proposed President’s Council fails. Pretoria is prepar
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