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

Incumbents

* State President: Charles Robberts Swart.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994
(Accessed on 14 April 2017) *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

Hendrik Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (; 8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966) was a South African politician, a scholar of applied psychology and sociology, and chief editor of '' Die Transvaler'' newspaper. He is commonly regarded as the architect ...

. * Chief Justice: Lucas Cornelius Steyn.

Events

;January * 8 –

Adam Faith Terence Nelhams Wright (23 June 1940 – 8 March 2003), known as Adam Faith, was an English singer, actor, and financial journalist. A teen idol, he scored consecutive No. 1 hits on the UK Singles Chart with " What Do You Want?" (1959) and "P ...

, a

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

pop singer, cancels his tour of South Africa because the South African government prohibited mixed audiences at concerts. ;April * 1 –

Frederick John Harris Frederick John Harris (4 July 1937 – 1 April 1965) (known as John Harris) was a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid campaigner who turned to terrorism and was executed after a bomb attack on a railway station. He was Chairman of SANR ...

is hanged for exploding the bomb at

Johannesburg Park Station Johannesburg Park Station is the central railway station in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the largest railway station in Africa. It is located between the Central Business District and Braamfontein, in the block bordered by Rissik, ...

that killed 77-year-old Ethel Rhys and injured 23 others on 24 July 1964. ;May * 4 – Units of the

South African Defence Force The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: ''Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag'') comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before the state reconstituted itself as a republic in 1961, the former Union Defence F ...

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 Rhodes University is a public research university located in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the province's oldest ...

Grahamstown Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London. Makhanda is the largest town in the Makana ...

installs a computer, the first university in South Africa to do so. ;Unknown date * The

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...

establishes its headquarters in

Morogoro Morogoro is a city in the eastern part of Tanzania west of Dar es Salaam. Morogoro is the capital of the Morogoro Region. It is also known informally as "Mji kasoro bahari" which translates to “city short of an ocean/port." The Belgian based ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

Births

* 1 February –

Dave Callaghan David John Callaghan (born 1 February 1965) is a former South African international cricketer. Despite there being a distance of eight years between his first and last One Day International, Callaghan only played 29 times for South Africa. He wa ...

, 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 John "Shoes" Lesiba Moshoeu (18 December 1965 – 21 April 2015) was a South African football player who was part of the South African team that won the 1996 African Cup of Nations. He played as an attacking midfielder. Shoes, as he was best ...

, footballer. (d. 2015).

Deaths

* 1 April –

, school teacher and bomb planter. (b. 1937) * 1 July –

Wally Hammond Walter Reginald Hammond (19 June 1903 – 1 July 1965) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed cap ...

, English first-class cricketer and South African sports administrator. (b. 1903) * 19 July – Ingrid Jonker, Afrikaans poet. (b. 1933) SAR Class 33-000 33-007

Railways

Locomotives

Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the

South African Railways Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet. It was part of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration, a state-controlled organisation that employed hundreds of thousands of people ...

: * The first of sixty-five Class 33-000 General Electric type U20C diesel-electric locomotives.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 * The first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 4 electric locomotives.

References

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