1968 in South Africa
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Events
- January
- 1 – Brigadier Magnus Malan is appointed as Officer Commanding of the Military Academy in Saldanha.[1]
- 10 – Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa.
- April
- 20 – A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes just after take-off from Windhoek en route to London, killing 122 out of the 129 on board.
- 30 – The bill establishing five universities for Blacks comes into force.
- Unknown date
- The Liberal Party of South Africa is banned by the government.
- Dorothy Nyembe is arrested for the second time and charged under the Suppression of Communism Act.
- The Villa Peri campaign by the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, tries to infiltrate members into South Africa via Botswana and Mozambique.
- The South African Bureau of State Security is formed and operates independently of the South African Police, accountable to the Prime Minister.
Births
- 28 April – Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe Test cricket player, is born in Cape Town.
Deaths
- 8 January – Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, an ichthyologist who was the first person to identify a captured fish as a coelacanth, dies in Grahamstown at the age of 70.
- 17 February – Julian Motau, artist, is murdered in Alexandra.
- Andrew Motjuoadi, artist, dies as a result of a stroke.
Railways
Locomotives
- In July the South African Railways places the first of one hundred and fifteen Class 33-400 General Electric type U20C diesel-electric locomotives in service in South West Africa.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Malan, Magnus (2006). My lewe saam met die SA Weermag (1st ed.). Hatfield, Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis. ISBN 978-1-86919-113-9.
- ↑ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0869772112.
- ↑ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
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