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In the by-election at Randfontein
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Britain, France, and the United States use their UN Security Council veto to stop a proposed arms embargo against South Africa.
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A proclamation is published in the Government Gazette providing for the detention of offenders for up to three years in rehabil
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A coalmine explosion in Rhodesia kills 431 workers.
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A proclamation is issued under the Riotous Assemblies Act banning political gatherings, processions, and protests for five week
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In response to Israel’s seizure of Gaza, Egypt closes the Suez Canal and breaks diplomatic ties with the west.
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The Physical Planning and Utilisation of Resources Bill is enacted.
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Malawi gains independence from Britain with Kamuzu Banda as prime minister.
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Sewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh, champion for the poor and social worker, dies in Durban. He was born in 1890 and played an active r
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Guybon Budlwana Sinxo, teacher, writer, journalist and community worker, dies in Alice, Eastern Cape.
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Transfer of the Indian community of Pretoria to Laudium ordered.
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Walter Sisulu, together with a number of listed persons and members of the ANC, attend a secret meeting where plans are discuss
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Asiatic Land Tenure (and Indian Representation) Act No 28, granting Indians separate representation by three White members of P
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The Allied Forces land on the beach of Normandy in the largest sea and air operation in the military history of the world.
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Duke Ketye, SA artist, is born in Orlando East, Soweto. After matriculation he studied art with Sister Pientia Selhorst and Sis
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Anthony Mnoneleli Bam, current professor of economic development studies and member of several Black empowerment boards, is bor
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Nganani Enos John Mabuza, Chief Executive Councillor of KaNgwane, 1977, is born at Sheba Gold Mine, Barberton.
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
On 6 June 1931 Joyce Barker was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes in Durban. Barker made…
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Winston Joseph Field, Rhodesian premier in 1962, is born in Bromsgrove, England.
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Sir Henry Binns (61), sugar cane farmer, founder of the Umhlanga Valley Sugar Estate Company and Natal politician, dies in Piet
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The Orange Free State Volksraad adopts a motion supporting President Kruger’s franchise proposals at the Bloemfontein Conferenc
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The first church meeting of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk takes place. The Rev. Dirk van der Hoff is appointed as first minis
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Bernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first White baby, is born at the Cape.
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Bartolomeu Dias erects the second padrão, that of St. Philip, at Cape Maclear, west of Cape Point, on his return journey. v.
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The SABC launches Africa’s first news channel, aimed at providing an African perspective on domestic and international stories.
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During a sitting in Boksburg, the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) reaches a compromise regarding the position of gays.
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A human leg falls from a South African Airways plane on to a suburban New York home as the aircraft prepares to land at John F
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News 24 announces that SA broke the Zimbabwean boycott in March this year. Armscor has sold spare parts to the value of more th
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Pasteur Bizimungu, Rwanda’s post-genocide president, is sentenced to fifteen years in jail for embezzlement and inciting violen
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