Mda

6 April 1916

Political activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born

The reburial of Flora

6 April 1991

The reburial of Flora

6 April 1874

Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys a section of land, which is later declared part of the Witwatersrand gold reef

6 April 1951

Archaeologist Robert Broom dies

6 April 1994

Rwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash

6 April 1814

Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor