1968 in South Africa

1968 in South Africa

"See also:"
1967 in South Africa,
other events of 1968,
1969 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

January

* 10 January - Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa

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

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* The South African Liberal Party 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

Births

* 28 April - Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe test cricket player, is born in Cape Town

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


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