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EVENTS

January

5 January - SABC begins country's first Television service.

May

29 May - Eskom announces that it will order two Nuclear Power Station s from France

June

16 June - Student riots break out in Soweto

23 June - B.J. Vorster , the Prime Minister Of South Africa , and Henry Kissinger , the United States Secretary Of State , hold talks in West Germany over the Rhodesia n issue

August

25 - 26 August - The Prime Minister Of South Africa , B.J. Vorster and the President Of Zambia , Kenneth Kaunda meet at Victoria Falls

September

13 September - The Cillié Commission Of Inquiry into the riots in Soweto on 16 June start

30 September - Michael Lapsley , an Anglican Priest and social Activist , arrives in Lesotho after his visa was not renewed in South Africa

Unknown date

Umkhonto We Sizwe 's central operations headquarters is set up, and the process of establishing training camps in Angola begin with the Gabela Training Camp becoming the first to be established

BIRTHS

3 July - Robert Brian Skinstad , South Africa National Rugby Union Team captain, is born in Bulawayo , Zimbabwe

DEATHS

16 June - Hector Pieterson , a 12 year old boy, killed by police

9 September - Ivan Mitford-Barberton , Art Teacher at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and Sculptor of several monuments in South Africa, dies in Hout Bay , Cape Town at the age of 80