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Anglo-Boer War 2: The hopes of certain Blacks that the harsher Republican laws affecting Blacks will be repealed after Britis
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller enters Volksrust, the first town in the ZAR to fall into his hands.
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Stephanus Schoeman (80), commandant-general in the Soutpansberg area and later of the ZAR, dies in Pretoria.
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Muhammad Ahmad proclaims himself Mahdi in the Sudan.
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The Alabama, American raider, is sunk outside Cherbourg harbour, France, by the U.S.S. Kearsarge. She was built during the Am
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Theophilus (Offy) Shepstone, son of Sir Theophilus and adviser of Mbandzeni, chief of the Swazi nation, is born in Fort Peddie.
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William John Burchell leaves Cape Town with a specially built wagon on a journey, which was to last four years, to explore the
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Tristam Burrell, one of the SA’s most-experienced paragliders, is electrocuted when his powered trike hits powerlines. His pass
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Ethiopia and Eritrea sign a cease-fire, ending their month-long war.
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Denmark ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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A private plane carrying the Angolan soccer team crashes in Luanda, Angola, killing forty-eight people.
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A new Algerian government takes office, replacing one sacked on June 5 after fundamentalist unrest.
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The Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation by which the forty-two-member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly is dissolved, and,
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ILO General Conference in Geneva condemns apartheid as degrading, criminal and inhuman, and decides to give assistance to South
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The Netherlands Parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour of an oil embargo on South Africa.
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Renewed rioting occurs in the Cape (18-19 June). Criminal elements in the Coloured community are blamed. Official figures repor
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Marais Viljoen is inaugurated as SA’s fifth state president after the resignation of B.J. Vorster.
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The United Nations Security Council is called into session at the urgent request of the African states. It issues a unanimous c
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The report of the Commission, under chairmanship of Professor Erika Theron, to investigate matters relating to the Coloured com
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N.P. van Wyk Louw, Afrikaans poet, dramatist and essayist, dies in Johannesburg.
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William Duncan Baxter and Bishop S.W. Lavis are the first receivers of the freedom of the City of Cape Town.
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Egypt becomes a republic with Gen. M. Neguib (also Naguib) as president.
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Chief Wessels Mota of the Tlokwa tribe becomes the first chief to accept the institution of a tribal authority.
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Suppression of Communism Act commences. This date is given as the 17 June in another source.
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Prof. J.J. Smith (65), compiler of the first standard dictionary of the Afrikaans language, dies in Cape Town.
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Dr Dadoo flies to Durban to study the situation as White hooligans continue to harass Indian Passive Resisters.
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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, State President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei, one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.
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Wilf Rosenberg, SA rugby player, is born.
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Dr Louis Luyt, SA businessman, politician and former president of the SA Rugby Football Union, is born.
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