1968 in South Africa

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See also: 1967 in South Africa, other events of 1968, 1969 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 April 1.3 Unknown date 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• 10 January - Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa

[edit] April

• 20 April - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes just after take-off from Windhoek en route to London killing 122 out of the 129 onboard.
• 30 April - The bill establishing five universities for Blacks comes into force

[edit] Unknown date

• The South African Liberal Party is banned by the government
• Dorothy Nyembe is arrested for the second time and charged under the Suppression of Communism Act

[edit] Births

• 28 April - Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe test cricket player, is born in Cape Town

[edit] Deaths

• 8 January - Professor James Smith, an ichthyologist who became the first person to identify a captured fish as a coelacanth, dies in Grahamstown at the age of 70