1968 in South Africa
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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
Births
- 28 April - Andy Flower, a Zimbabwe test cricket player, is born in Cape Town
Deaths
- 8 January - Professor James Smith, an ichthyologist who became the first person to identify a captured fish as a coelecanth, dies in Grahamstown at the age of 70
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