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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



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June



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



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