1965 in South Africa

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1965
in
South Africa

Decades:
See also:

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

Incumbents

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
May
October
  • 4 – At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban.
November
Unknown date

Births

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:

References

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