MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · June 17
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 17
June 17 in history
1992 — Boipatong
17 Jun 1992 — Hostel-dwellers, with apparent police complicity, kill 45 township residents. The massacre nearly collapses the talks — evidence of a “third force” stoking violence to derail the transition. Remember them.
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