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England faces Denmark in the second round of the 2002 World Cup, following a goalless draw with Nigeria in a tight Group F enco
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 2-3 against Spain.
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Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing
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The SA rugby team beats Italy 74-3 in Port Elizabeth.
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SA’s Bafana Bafana loses its first World Cup Soccer match against France 0-3.
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A deal is proposed between the IFP and the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal aimed at stopping the conflict. The initiative has brought a de
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US helicopters and gunships destroy four of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid’s arms depots, one week after his forces allege
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Three Whites, Damion de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are convicted of terrorism for being in possession of an arms c
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Stanza Bopape, a Black activist of Mamelodi, dies in police custody. He allegedly escaped from a police van while being transpo
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Jabulani Sibisi, Joseph Mthembu, Sifiso Nxumalo and Nkosinthi Thenjekwayo, all ANC members, are shot dead in an ambush near Pie
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Central African Republic’s former emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes committed during his thirteen-yea
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Countrywide State of Emergency is declared in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953.
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The Eminent Persons Group releases its report on South Africa.
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The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill receives its third reading. Among its provisions are the abolition of the Senate
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The government publishes details of proposed legislation under which the Minister of Defence could designate any place, area or
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A member of the three-man Presidential Council of the PAC, David M. Sibeko, dies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after being shot t
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Dr Werner W.M. Eiselen, co-founder of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra) and promoter of the concept of separat
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A military coup in Uruguay overthrows civilian president Juan Bordaberry, beginning a nine-year dictatorship.
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The Minister of Indian Affairs announces that South African Indians will be free to move from one province to another without p
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The Post Office Amendment Bill provides for the interception of mail and telephone and other communications where necessary in
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The SA rugby team beats France 22-9 in Bloemfontein.
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Sydney John Clow, pioneer of the motorcar industry, dies in Johannesburg.
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The seventh ‘homeland’ is inaugurated with the installation of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi as Chief Executive Officer of the Zululan
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Israel declares it will keep some of ground won from Egypt, Jordan and Syria in Six-Day War.
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Conclusion of the Rivonia trial. Nelson Mandela, Sisulu, Mbeki, Kathrada, Mhlaba, Mlangeni & Motsoaledi are sentenced to li
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The coldest day in Pretoria in 108 years with a minimum of –3,6 and a maximum of 7,5 degrees Centigrade.
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SA signs amendment to the co-operation agreement with the United States.
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British King George IV lands in Algiers at the start of a North African tour of Allied troops.
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Mimi Coertse, SA coloratura, is born in Durban.
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
On 12 June 1917, Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor, novelist and community worker, was born in Durban. She moved to London where she completed her…