State President: Jacobus Johannes Fouché
April
14-16 – A summit meeting of the leaders of East and Central African States in Lusaka results in the issue of the Lusaka Manifesto on 16 April.
17 – Dorothy Fisher is the first woman and the fifth person to receive a heart transplant under Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
25 to 1 May – The African National Congress holds its first national consultative conference in Morogoro, Tanzania. It becomes known as the "Morogoro Conference".
May
1 – The Department of Intelligence and Security of the African National Congress is established under Moses Mabhida.
June
4-10 – P.W. Botha, Minister of Defence, visits France accompanied by General R.C. Hiemstra, Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant-General W.P. Louw, Chief of the Army and Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force.
Unknown date
Dorothy Nyembe is convicted of defeating the ends of justice by harbouring members of Umkhonto we Sizwe and is 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.
5 March – Derek Crookes, cricketer.
27 July – Jonathan Neil Rhodes, cricketer, is born in Pietermaritzburg
25 September – Wessel Johannes (Hansie) Cronje, all-rounder cricketer, is born in Bloemfontein.
5 March – Reuben Tholakele Caluza, Zulu folk music composer and choir master, dies in Durban.
The South African Railways places the first of twenty Class 6E1, Series 1 electric locomotives in mainline service.
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