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EVENTS

January

14 January - Local community at Soekmekaar resist forced removal and damage police station

25 January - Three Umkhonto We Sizwe operatives Stephen Mafoko, Humphrey Makhubo and Wilfred Madela held the staff and customers in a Silverton bank in Pretoria hostage. This was followed by a shoot-out with the police in which two civilians and the three operatives were killed

March

Two terrorists or freedom fighters are killed by police in Bophutatswana but one escapes

12 March - The Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) together with its sister church for Blacks (the NGK in Afrika), Coloureds (the NG Sendingkerk) and Indians (the Reformed Church in Africa) issue a statement stating that the Churches bring no objection in principle if the authorities judge that circumstances justify reconsideration of the Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act.

--- Nine people are sentenced in Pretoria to five to seven years imprisonment for training as guerrillas outside South Africa and recruiting others to undergo training

April

4 April - Umkhonto We Sizwe attack the Booysens Police Station in Johannesburg with grenades, rocket launchers and AK47 s

21 April - More than sixty coloured high schools, teacher training colleges and the University Of The Western Cape start boycotting classes

29 April - Hundreds of coloured school children are arrested in Johannesburg during a student-police confrontation in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act

May

2 May - Pink Floyd 's '' Another Brick In The Wall '' is banned because the government fear that it might be used as a song of liberty by black school children

6 May - Thozamile Botha , an activist in the Port Elizabeth area breaks his banning order and escapes to Maseru , Lesotho

25 May - The South African Defence Force attacks the city of Chifufua , Angola in Operation Sceptic

June

1 June Bombs explode at Sasol 1, 2 and Natref Eight at Sasolburg , Secunda with no injuries and R58-m damage. The attack was organised by Solomon Mahlangu of the Umkhonto WeSizwe Special Operations.

August

Special Branch policeman Det-Sgt TG Zondi is shot at in Sobantu Village

October

14 October - Soweto community calls for a stayaway to protest against rent increases

15 October - Bomb explodes and damages Railway line in Dube, Soweto and Piet Koornhof, minister of co-operation and development, visits the scene

29 October - Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres throw two grenades into the government buildings of the West Rand Administration Board and injure a security guard and friend

30 October - A bomb explodes at the Transkei consuls residence in Port Elizabeth ; no injuries

November

21 November - A terrorist or freedom fighter is killed in Chiawelo and a child is injured by police

SPORT

12 January - The British Sports Council begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in sport

Motorsport

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

BIRTHS

DEATHS

12 March - Lillian Masediba Ngoyi "Ma Ngoyi", a dressmaker, political activist and trade unionist, who suffered from heart trouble, dies at the age of 68 in Johannesburg

June - Expelled African National Congress official, Tennyson Makiwane is shot dead

4 June - Patrick Makau, Umkhonto WeSizwe member, and his child (9) are killed in a bomb attack on two houses in Manzini , Swaziland .