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The date of 16 December is the anniversary of the 1961 founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation" or MK), the armed wing of the ANC. [1] On that day, Umkhonto we Sizwe enacted its "first acts of sabotage" which included bomb blasts against government buildings in Johannesburg , Port Elizabeth and Durban . [ 19 ]
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December 16 is the 350th day of the year ... later queen consort of England (d. 1536) 1534 – Hans Bol, Flemish artist ... Historical Events on December 16
The Christian holidays of Christmas Day and Good Friday remained in secular post-apartheid South Africa's calendar of public holidays. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission), a chapter nine institution established in 2004, held countrywide consultative public hearings in June and July 2012 to ...
[13] [22] [31] [16] [32] However, in early December 2017, following the ANC provincial general congresses, the party branches in Gauteng, Limpopo, the Northern Cape, the Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape nominated Ramaphosa for the presidency; KwaZulu-Natal, the North West, Mpumalanga, and the Free State nominated Dlamini-Zuma. [33]
[16] 11 June: Former South African president Jacob Zuma and his party uMkhonto weSizwe files a petition in the Constitutional Court seeking to block the newly elected parliament from sitting, citing vote-rigging. [17] The Constitutional Court dismisses the petition on 13 June. [18]
The history of South Africa's Boxing Day Test traces back to 1913, with a match against England in Johannesburg. [1] The tradition became more established after South Africa's return to international cricket in the early 1990s, with the 1992 match against India being a notable milestone.
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