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This week in history

6 July 1916

William Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I more

7 July 1992

SA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match more

8 July 1946

Passive Resistance protests against anti-Indian legislation results in the mass arrest of hundreds of Indian resisters

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9 July 1737

The first missionary arrives at the Cape more

10 July 1836

Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay to begin a hunting expedition more

11 July 2007

Bill Flynn (58), popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg, presumably of a heart attack more

12 July 1984

A car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people more