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EVENTS

January

8 January - the Railway line near Soweto is maliciously damaged

February

1 February - The Bantustan of KwaZulu is granted self-governance

24 February - A bomb explodes at the Daveyton Police Station which cause only structural damage

March

7 March - A Pretoria restaurant destroyed by a bomb

April

1 April - Pik Botha , South Africa's ambassador in the United States Of America is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

June

4 June - Father S. Mkhatshwa, Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, is served a 5 year restriction order

15 June - Monty Motlaung and Solomon Mahlangu, two Umkhonto We Sizwe cadres are arrested by police in warehouse in Goch Street, Johannesburg . Two bystanders are killed during the arrest. Later Motlaung is beaten so badly in police custody that he ends up brain damaged and Mahlangu was tried and hanged

29 June - The United Party is renamed the New Republic Party

July

15 July - The railway line at Umlazi in Durban is maliciously damaged

29 July - The "Antipolis", a Greek Oil tanker, rans aground on the rocks near Victoria Road in Oudekraal , Cape Province while being towed to a wreckers yard

August

A Soviet surveillance satellite detects South Africa's Nuclear test preparations and alerts the United States

September

6 September - Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 Of 1967

November

The railway at between Dunswart ( Boksburg ) and Apex ( Benoni ) is maliciously damaged and a train driver is slightly injured

25 November - 14 people are injured when a bomb explodes at the Carlton Centre

30 November - A bomb explodes on a Pretoria bound train

December

12 December - Guerrillas attack the Germiston police station, no one hurt

14 December - A bomb explodes at Benoni 's railway station

22 December - An unexploded bomb is found in OK bazaars (a nationwide supermarket) in Roodepoort

Unknown date

Former members of the United Party leave and join the Progressive Reform Party , which is renamed the Progressive Federal Party

Cedric Mayson , a Methodist minister, is banned for 5 years

SPORT

Motorsport

5 March - The South African Grand Prix , is held at Kyalami

BIRTHS

DEATHS

5 March - British Formula One racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his car hits a marshal, Jansen Van Vuuren

8 March - Moses Kottler , sculptor, dies in Johannesburg at the age of 81

29 April - Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker , Journalist , anti- Apartheid Activist , dies, at the age of 56, from a suspected heart failure on a flight from London to Berlin

9 September - Leonard Mandla Nkosi, special branch policeman who was a former African National Congress member, is killed

12 September - Steve Biko dies in police detention