1968 in South Africa
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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- 10 January - Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa
[edit] April
- 20 April - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes just after take-off from Windhoek en route to London killing 122 out of the 129 onboard.
- 30 April - The bill establishing five universities for Blacks comes into force
[edit] 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
- Villa Peri campaign by Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress tries to infiltrate members into South Africa via Botswana and Mozambique
- South African Bureau of State Security is formed and operates independently of South African Police and is accountable to the Prime Minister
[edit] Births
- 28 April - Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe Test cricket player, is born in Cape Town
[edit] Deaths
- Andrew Motjuoadi, artist, dies as a result of a stroke
- 8 January - Professor James Smith, an ichthyologist who became 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
