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Encyclopedia > 1968 in South Africa

See also: 1967 in South Africa, other events of 1968, 1969 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. See also: 1966 in South Africa, other events of 1967, 1968 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...


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January

January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... From 1961 to 1994, South Africas head of state was called the State President or Staatspresident in Afrikaans. ...

April

  • 30 April - The bill establishing five universities for Blacks comes into force

April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years). ...

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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

The South African Liberal Party was a South African political party, founded in 1953 by the novelist Alan Paton. ...

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Welcome to South Africa (1415 words)
To fl South Africans, rugby had a different meaning: it was a white man's game, and a brutally hard one at that, the sport of the apartheid police, the apartheid army, and the apartheid government.
South Africa is by no means a giant in the world of soccer, but for many fl South Africans, the country's proudest sporting moment came when we won the African Cup of Nations on our home turf in 1996 - having failed to even qualify for the previous cup.
South Africa is the home of world-class sporting facilities capable of accommodating tens of thousands of spectators in comfort, such as the picturesque Newlands grounds, nestled at the foot of Cape Town's mountains, and the energy-charged Wanderers Cricket Grounds in Johannesburg.
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