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The following lists events that happened during 1965 in South Africa.

Incumbents

State President: Charles Robberts Swart.^[1]
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)

Class 33-000 (GE U20C)

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.^[2]^[3]
The first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 4 electric locomotives.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
^ ^a ^b Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 128, 139–140. ISBN 0869772112.
^ ^a ^b 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

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