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See also: 1967 in South Africa, other events of 1968, 1969 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

Events

January

• 10 January - Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa

April

• 20 April - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes just after take-off from Windhoek en route to London killing 122 out of the 129 onboard.
• 30 April - The bill establishing five universities for Blacks comes into force

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• The South African Liberal Party is banned by the government
• Dorothy Nyembe is arrested for the second time and charged under the Suppression of Communism Act
• Villa Peri campaign by Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress tries to infiltrate members into South Africa via Botswana and Mozambique
• South African Bureau of State Security is formed and operates independently of South African Police and is accountable to the Prime Minister

Births

• 28 April - Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe test cricket player, is born in Cape Town

Deaths

• Andrew Motjuoadi, artist, dies as a result of a stroke
• 8 January - Professor James Smith, an ichthyologist who became the first person to identify a captured fish as a coelacanth, dies in Grahamstown at the age of 70
• 17 February - Julian Motau, artist, is murdered in Alexandra