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EVENTS

January

8 January - South Africa and Lesotho sign a monetary agreement

14 January - Police clash with Umkhonto We Sizwe Guerrillas on a farm near Zeerust , one is arrested while 6 escape over the Botswana border

23 January - A bomb explodes near the New Canada Railway station in Soweto

24 January - Large quantity of explosives are found and defused on the railway between Fort Beaufort and King William's Town

April

Explosives discovered and defused on Railway line near Soweto

May

5 May - Guerrillas open fire in the Moroka Police Station's charge office killing one policeman and wounding three others. 3 civilians were also injured

29 May - Bishop Abel Muzorewa becomes the transtional Prime Minister Of Zimbabwe Rhodesia

June

Explosives arwe discovered and defused on Railway line in the Eastern Transvaal

4 June - Marais Viljoen becomes State President Of South Africa for the second time

November

Guerrillas open fire and hurl grenades into the charge office of Orlando Police Station, Soweto . Two policemen are killed and two wounded

Grenades thrown into the home of Special Branch policeman, Lt Magezi Ngobeni, 5 children wounded

December

Bomb explodes and damages the Railway near Alice

Bomb explodes at the Sasol Oil Refineries and cause massive structural damage

Unknown date

The National Council of Lawyers for Human Rights is established

The African National Congress 's Special Operations is set up to undertake high-profile acts of sabotage on key economic installations. This structure reported directly to Oliver Tambo

The African National Congress' Nova Catengue Training Camp is destroyed in an aerial bombardment by the South African Air Force

SPORT

Motorsport

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

BIRTHS

DEATHS

February - Sgt Benjamin Letlako, a Police Special Branch member is shot dead in Katlehong

12 June - David Sibeko , director of Foreign Affairs of the Pan Africanist Congress and representative to the United Nations , is shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam , Tanzania