For cricket fans, this is an important week. In 1935, South Africa beat England for the first time on English soil.
The Broederbond was founded this week in 1918; Pixley Seme, journalist and one of the founders of the African National Congress died this week in 1951; and this week in 1980, Umkhonto weSizwe attacked the Sasol oil refinery complex.
Other trivia is that South Africa’s richest gold deposit was discovered in the Orange Free State this week in 1954.
A last noteworthy date is 6 June 1995, the day the Constitutional Court abolished the death penalty.
This is just a small selection of events that happened this week in South African history. For a full list and for more details on some of the events mentioned already, click here.
June 1, 2008
This Week in History