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EVENTS

March

23 March - Zulu King Cyprian Bhekuzulu KaSolomon warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign

April

6 April - The African National Congress , South African Indian Congress and the Coloured People’s Congress launches the Defiance Campaign against Apartheid

May

3 May - The first regular jet flight between South Africa and Britain is started with the arrival of a De Havilland Comet with 36 passengers at Johannesburg

BIRTHS

26 April - Popo Simon Molefe , co-founder of the Azanian People's Organisation , is born in Sophiatown , Johannesburg

23 October - Antjie Krog , a poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist, is in Kroonstad

DEATHS