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EVENTS

January

Former African National Congress member, Steve Mtshali who turned state witness in various trials is shot and wounded

February

An unexploded bomb "capable of destroying 22 story building is found in a Johannesburg office block and defused

2 February - Guerrillas attack the Daveyton police station

--- Kaiser Matanzima breaks all diplomatic ties with South Africa and announces that all South African Defence Force members seconded to the Transkei Army will leave Transkei by 31 March

--- The Attorney-General of the Eastern Cape states that he will not prosecute any Police involved in the arrest and detention of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko

March

10 March - Bomb explodes outside the offices of the Bantu Affairs building in Port Elizabeth . One civilian is killed and three injured

April

14 April - Former deputy president of the African National Congress in the Transvaal , Abel Mthembu turns state witness at the Pretoria ANC trial

May

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--- Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa , two members of the Azanian People's Organisation are arrested in Soweto

August

21 August - Marais Viljoen becomes 5th State President Of South Africa

September

Black September episode - The African National Congress attempts to kill about 500 cadres by poisoning their food because an enemy agent had escaped the screening procedures and could not be identified.

29 September - PW Botha succeeds Balthazar Johannes Vorster as 9th Prime Minister Of South Africa

October

Balthazar Johannes Vorster becomes 6th State President Of South Africa

December

December - Bomb explodes at the Soweto Community Council offices

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South African Defence Force s attack several South-West Africa People's Organisation bases in Angola during Operation Bruilof

The South African Defence Force's South African 32 Battalion move into southern Angola to flush out South-West Africa People's Organisation members during Operation Seiljag

George Bizos becomes a senior member of the Johannesburg Bar

South Africa's Atomic Energy Corporation built South Africa's first Nuclear Weapon device

SPORT

Motorsport

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

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum , legendary golfer, dies

8 January - Richard Turner , activist and academic, is shot dead at his Durban home

12 January - Monty Naicker , a Medical Doctor and prominent Politician , dies in Durban

--- Philemon (Duma) Nokwe , the first African Advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and Politician , dies

4 June - Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe , Xhosa composer, choir conductor and organist, dies in East London