1969 in South Africa

1969 in South Africa

"See also:"
1968 in South Africa,
other events of 1969,
1970 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

April

* 14-16 April - A summit meeting of the leaders of East and Central African States in Lusaka and on the 16th issue the Lusaka Manifesto
* 17 April - Dorothy Fisher becomes the first woman and the 5th person to receive heart transplant under Dr Christiaan Barnard
* 25 April - 1 May - The African National Congress holds its first national consultative conference in Morogoro, Tanzania. It is now called the "Morogoro Conference"
** The Department of Intelligence and Security of the African National Congress is established under Moses Mabhida

June

* 4-10 June - P.W. Botha, Minister of Defence, General Hiemstra, Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force and Lieutenant-General W.P. Louw, Chief of the Army, visits France.

Unknown date

* Dorothy Nyembe is convicted of defeating the end of justice by harbouring members of Umkhonto we Sizwe and 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

Births

* 5 March - Derek Crookes, cricketer, is born
* 25 September - Wessel Johannes Cronje, all-rounder cricketer, is born in Bloemfontein

Deaths

* 5 March - Thola Caluza, Zulu folk music composer, and choir master, dies in Durban


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