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EVENTS


January



February



March



April



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



August




September



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



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SPORT


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