1965 in South Africa

← 1964 1963 1962 1965 in South Africa → 1966 1967 1968
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	1965 in South African sport List of years in South Africa

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

1. Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
2. Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 128, 139–140. ISBN   0869772112.
3. 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