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Julayi Hlekiso, chairperson of the Transport and General Workers Union, is shot at point blank range outside his office in Umta

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Stellenbosch University announces that it is to open its doors to Black, Coloured and Asian students for all post-graduate degr

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A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people

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At the Rand Criminal Sessions three Africans are imprisoned for twelve years and one for eight years on a charge of sabotage.

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King Hassan launches the ‘Green March’ with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran, crossing into Weste

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Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and

Press statement of ANC Deputy President, Nelson Mandela, on the Operation Vulindlela and the Indemnification of ANC members 22 June 1991

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Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, bishop of Zululand and later president of the World Council of Churches (WCC), is born in Nquthu, Natal

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SA signs a protocol of intent on military cooperation between the Ministry of Defence of South Africa and the Ministry of Defen

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Omar Badsha, SA photographer, trade unionist and political activist, is born in Durban. He is currently head of the Non Governm

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Following official meetings held in Sweden (15-19 June) and later in Britain, the United Nations Special Committee on the Polic

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Pres. Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station and accompanies him to his hotel to

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Louis Ernst Brandt (65), minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and champion of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War 2, die

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Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou

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A US Marine is killed and eight other service members are injured by errant bombs dropped by a US B-52 Stratofortress in Djibou

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European Union members meeting in Florence, Italy, fail to agree on a plan to fight high unemployment in Europe and oppose US e

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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight

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Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.

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South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrive in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their

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Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru

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Hieronymus Cruse (57), German born explorer and soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company, who led several barter

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J.T. Kruger, former Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, is elected President of the Senate on the nomination of P.W. Botha

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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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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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SA signs an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res

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

This day in history

Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban proclaims a broad belt of land between the Keiskamma and Buffalo Rivers as the Province of Queen

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SA signs treaty with the Perishable Products Export Control Board for the ocean conveyance of goods between South Africa and Eu

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After the 1914 Rebellion, General Christiaan de Wet is found guilty of high treason in the High Court, Bloemfontein, and senten

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Julayi Hlekiso, chairperson of the Transport and General Workers Union, is shot at point blank range outside his office in Umta

Stellenbosch University announces that it is to open its doors to Black, Coloured and Asian students for all post-graduate degr

A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people

At the Rand Criminal Sessions three Africans are imprisoned for twelve years and one for eight years on a charge of sabotage.

King Hassan launches the ‘Green March’ with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran, crossing into Weste

Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa. March includes 127 women, 57 children and

Press statement of ANC Deputy President, Nelson Mandela, on the Operation Vulindlela and the Indemnification of ANC members 22 June 1991

Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, bishop of Zululand and later president of the World Council of Churches (WCC), is born in Nquthu, Natal

SA signs a protocol of intent on military cooperation between the Ministry of Defence of South Africa and the Ministry of Defen

Omar Badsha, SA photographer, trade unionist and political activist, is born in Durban. He is currently head of the Non Governm

Following official meetings held in Sweden (15-19 June) and later in Britain, the United Nations Special Committee on the Polic

Pres. Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station and accompanies him to his hotel to

Louis Ernst Brandt (65), minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and champion of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War 2, die

Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou

A US Marine is killed and eight other service members are injured by errant bombs dropped by a US B-52 Stratofortress in Djibou

European Union members meeting in Florence, Italy, fail to agree on a plan to fight high unemployment in Europe and oppose US e

Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight

Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.

South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrive in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their

Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru

Hieronymus Cruse (57), German born explorer and soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company, who led several barter

J.T. Kruger, former Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, is elected President of the Senate on the nomination of P.W. Botha

Theophilus (Offy) Shepstone, son of Sir Theophilus and adviser of Mbandzeni, chief of the Swazi nation, is born in Fort Peddie.

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, State President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei, one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

SA signs an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res

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

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

Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban proclaims a broad belt of land between the Keiskamma and Buffalo Rivers as the Province of Queen

SA signs treaty with the Perishable Products Export Control Board for the ocean conveyance of goods between South Africa and Eu

After the 1914 Rebellion, General Christiaan de Wet is found guilty of high treason in the High Court, Bloemfontein, and senten