Key events happened on this day, June 12: Several events have occurred worldwide on this day in the past. One of which is former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's conviction by Allahabad High Court in 1975 to South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison in 1964 to a gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay …
Nelson Mandela was on first-name basis with Queen Elizabeth II, a rare privilege contravening royal etiquette, the late anti-apartheid hero's foundation said Friday, sharing anecdotes of their fond relationship. Queen Elizabeth II Passes Away: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets with former South African President Nelson Mandela. "By his own admission, Nelson Mandela was an anglophile, and in the years after …
Frederik Willem de Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for his foundation confirmed on Thursday Johannesburg: F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died aged …
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