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Today in SA History: March 6th

───   06:00 Fri, 06 Mar 2015

Today in SA History: March 6th | News Article
Historical Events:

• 1892: Isaac Williams Wauchope, author and activist, is ordained as pastor of the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Blinkwater. He was killed in 1917 when the troopship Mendi sank in the English Channel with a loss of over 600 Black South Africans.
• 1904: Prof. Hermanus Marthinus van der Westhuysen, historian and supporter of the Ossewabrandwag, is born in the district of Pretoria.
• 1979: The trial of eighteen suspected PAC members which began in December 1977 and has already taken over 100 court sessions, resumes in Bethal. The defendants face two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of alternative counts under other legislation.
• 1988: The Sowetan announces that a new union for health workers, the African Health Workers' Congress was launched in Johannesburg.
• 2005: Bertie van Zyl (72), biggest tomato farmer in the world and owner of tomato farm ZZ2, dies in a Pretoria hospital.
• 1947: The multilateral Convention of the World Meteorological Organisation with Related Protocols, to which SA is a party, is signed in Washington, USA.
• 2005: South Africa's Ernie Els sinks a magnificent 18-footer for eagle-three at the last to win the Dubai Desert Classic for the third time.

Arts, Music, TV:

• 1961: Ruth Golembo, former financial journalist and managing director of Lange Public Relations since 1995, is born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia.
• 1999: Berna Ackerman from Bloemfontein is awarded the ATKV Prose Prize (R20 000) for her novel Liesbet Delport se oorlogsboek.
• 2006: The SA film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto and directed by Gavin Woods, receives the Oscar for the best foreign film at the Oscar awards in Hollywood.

Sports:

• 1997: Bruce Grobbelaar, a former SA coach, Hans Segers, and John Fashanu are exonerated on charges of manipulating soccer results, because the jury could not come to a ruling.
• 2001: Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, twists his right knee in a Champions League game against Real Madrid, barring him from playing for the rest of the season.
• 1957: The first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
• 2005: Twenty-five people are injured when 50 000 people attempt to squeeze into a 25 000-capacity soccer stadium in Antananarivo, Madagascar, ahead of a match between Madagascar USJF Ravinala and South African side Kaizer Chiefs. No Kaizer Chief fans are injured in the crash.















Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba

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