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EVENTS

January

31 January - The University Of Port Elizabeth is established

February

South Africa is suspended from the International Labour Organisation

March

11 March - South Africa withdraws from the International Labour Organisation

June

Nelson Mandela 's original 5 year sentence is commuted for life for high treason in the Rivonia Trial

5 June - South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna

July

24 July - Frederick John Harris , a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park Station ( Johannesburg 's main Railway station) killing Edna Rhys, a 77 year old woman and injuring 23 others

Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal for Peace

Unknown date

Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum , an Indian Golf er, wins the Dutch Open tournament for the third time

The African National Congress establishes offices in Dar-es-Salaam

BIRTHS

3 November - Brenda Fassie , Singer , is born in Langa, Cape Town

DEATHS