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EVENTS

January

Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa for military training with the Umkhonto We Sizwe

March

12 March - Defence Minister J.J. Fouche , outlines South Africa 's defence policy to make South Africa self-supporting in military equipment

May

6 May - Victorio Carpio ( Philippines ) and Martinez De Alva ( Mexico ), both United Nations representatives begin informal talks about South West Africa with Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , the Prime Minister Of South Africa , in Pretoria

August

5 August - Nelson Mandela is arrested after the CIA tipped off the police

October

October - Lillian Masediba Ngoyi is banned for 10 years, confining her to Orlando Township in Johannesburg and forbidding her to attend any gatherings

13 October - Helen Joseph became the first person to be placed under house arrest under the Sabotage Act

December

10 December - Martin Luther King and Chief Albert Luthuli launch a Humans Rights Campaign in which they appealed for “Action against Apartheid "

Unknown date

United Nations starts sanctions to isolate South Africa politically and economically

A maximum security institution on Robben Island is completed

BIRTHS

29 August - Steve Hofmeyr , signer, songwriter and actor

13 June - Mandla Nkosi , artist, is born in Soweto , Johannesburg

DEATHS

6 May - Florence Josephine Zerffi , still life and landscape painter, dies in Kilgetty , Pembrokeshire , England