1965 in South Africa

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See also: 1964 in South Africa, other events of 1965, 1965 in South African sport, 1966 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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[edit] Events

• The African National Congress establish its HQ in Morogoro, Tanzania
• 8 January - Adam Faith, a British pop singer, cancels his tour of South Africa because the apartheid government prohibited mixed audiences at concerts
• 4 May - Units of the South African Defence Force are started to be issued with the R1 7.62 mm rifle licensed built in South Africa
• November - Rhodes University, Grahamstown installs a computer becoming the first university in South Africa to do so

[edit] Births

• 1 February - David Callaghan, an all-rounder in one-day cricket matches, is born
• 2 June - Angela Thoko Didiza, politician, is born in Durban

[edit] Deaths

• 1 April - Frederick John Harris, schoolteacher, member of the African Resistance Movement and chairman of the Nonracial Olympic Committee is hanged for exploding a bomb at Park Station, Johannesburg on 24 July, 1964