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16 May 1977
Winnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
16 May 1985
International Conference on Sports Boycott against SA commences in Paris
16 May 1992
CODESA II Talks end in deadlock
16 May 1971
Prime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
16 May 2004
International Candlelight Memorial Day
16 May 1969
The South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
16 May 1976
James Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
16 May 1976
Pupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
16 May 1964
Recommendations by Commission of Inquiry into SA Press
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