State President: Jozua François Naudé (until 10 April), Jacobus Johannes Fouché (starting 10 April)
January
1 – Brigadier Magnus Malan is appointed as Officer Commanding of the Military Academy in Saldanha.
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.
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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.
28 April – Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe Test cricket player, is born in Cape Town.
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.
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.
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