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Years in South Africa


Events

January

  • 8 January – the railway line near Soweto is maliciously damaged

February

  • 1 February – The Bantustan of KwaZulu is granted self-governance
  • 24 February – A bomb explodes at the Daveyton Police Station, causing only superficial damage

March

  • 7 March – A Pretoria restaurant destroyed by a bomb

April

  • 1 April – Pik Botha, South Africa's ambassador in the United States of America is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs

May

  • 17 May – A referendum is held in South West Africa to vote on the draft Turnhalle constitution

June

  • 4 June – Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, is served a 5 year restriction order
  • 15 June – Monty Motlaung and Solomon Mahlangu, two Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres are arrested by police in warehouse in Goch Street, Johannesburg. Two bystanders are killed during the arrest. Later Motlaung is beaten so badly in police custody that he ends up brain damaged and Mahlangu was tried and hanged
  • 29 June – The United Party is renamed the New Republic Party

July

  • 15 July – The railway line at Umlazi in Durban is maliciously damaged
  • 29 July – The "Antipolis", a Greek oil tanker, rans aground on the rocks near Victoria Road in Oudekraal, Cape Province while being towed to a wreckers yard

August

September

November

December

  • 12 December – Guerrillas attack the Germiston police station
  • 14 December – A bomb explodes at Benoni's railway station
  • 16 December – The Venpet-Venoil collision between two supertankers off the coast of Cape St. Francis
  • 22 December – An unexploded bomb is found in OK bazaars (a nationwide supermarket) in Roodepoort

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Sport

Motorsport

Births

Deaths

  • 5 March – British Formula One racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his car hits a marshal, Jansen Van Vuuren
  • 8 March – Moses Kottler, sculptor, dies in Johannesburg at the age of 81
  • 29 April – Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, dies, at the age of 56, from a suspected heart failure on a flight from London to Berlin
  • 9 September – Leonard Mandla Nkosi, special branch policeman who was a former African National Congress member, is killed
  • 12 September – Steve Biko dies in police detention

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