1969 in South Africa

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	1969 in South Africa
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Timeline of South African history

Events

April

• 14-16 April - A summit meeting of the leaders of East and Central African States in Lusaka and on the 16th issue the Lusaka Manifesto
• 17 April - Dorothy Fisher becomes the first woman and the 5th person to receive heart transplant under Dr Christiaan Barnard
• 25 April - 1 May - The African National Congress holds its first national consultative conference in Morogoro, Tanzania. It is now called the "Morogoro Conference"
  • The Department of Intelligence and Security of the African National Congress is established under Moses Mabhida

June

• 4-10 June - P.W. Botha, Minister of Defence, General Hiemstra, Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force and Lieutenant-General W.P. Louw, Chief of the Army, visits France.

Unknown date

• Dorothy Nyembe is convicted of defeating the end of justice by harbouring members of Umkhonto we Sizwe and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Barberton Prison
• South Africa's Atomic Energy Board creates a commission to evaluate the technical and economic aspects of peaceful nuclear explosives for use in mines

Births

• 5 March - Derek Crookes, cricketer, is born
• 25 September - Wessel Johannes Cronje, all-rounder cricketer, is born in Bloemfontein

Deaths

• 5 March - Thola Caluza, Zulu folk music composer, and choir master, dies in Durban