The following lists events that happened during 1965 in South Africa.
Incumbents State President: Charles Robberts Swart.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) Prime Minister: Hendrik Verwoerd. Chief Justice: Lucas Cornelius Steyn.
Events
January 8 – Adam Faith, a British pop singer, cancels his tour of South Africa because the South African government prohibited mixed audiences at concerts.
April 1 – Frederick John Harris is hanged for exploding the bomb at Johannesburg Park Station that killed 77-year-old Ethel Rhys and injured 23 others on 24 July 1964.
May 4 – Units of the South African Defence Force begin to be issued with the R1 7.62 mm rifle, made in South Africa under license.
October 4 – At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban.
November Rhodes University in Grahamstown installs a computer, the first university in South Africa to do so.
Unknown date The African National Congress establishes its headquarters in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Births 1 February – Dave Callaghan, cricketer. 14 February – Themba Ndaba, actor. 17 March – Andrew Hudson, cricketer. 18 March – Yvonne Chaka Chaka, singer. 2 June – Thoko Didiza, politician. 10 June – Tiaan Strauss, rugby player. 13 July – Hannes Strydom, rugby player. 25 September – Augustine Makalakalane, football player. 1 December – Henry Honiball, rugby player. 18 December – John Moshoeu, footballer. (d. 2015).
Deaths 1 April – Frederick John Harris, school teacher and bomb planter. (b. 1937) 1 July – Wally Hammond, English first-class cricketer and South African sports administrator. (b. 1903) 19 July – Ingrid Jonker, Afrikaans poet. (b. 1933)
Railways
Locomotives Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways: The first of sixty-five Class 33-000 General Electric type U20C diesel-electric locomotives.South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended The first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 4 electric locomotives.
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