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1963 in South Africa

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1963
in
South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 1963 in South Africa.

Incumbents

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Events

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July
August
  • 7 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 181 is passed, calling for a voluntary arms embargo of South Africa.
  • 11 – Four of the defendants who had been arrested on July 11, at the Liliesleaf Farm near Johannesburg, were able to escape their South African jail after a bribe was promised to their guard by the ANC. Harold Wolpe and Arthur Goldreich, who were both white, were confined at Johannesburg's Marshall Square Police Station, in the same cell with Indian South Africans Abdulhay Jassat and Moosa Moolla, separate from the black South African defendants. Their white guard, Johannes Greeff, served three years of a six-year sentence, and later received 2,000 African pounds.[2] Wolpe and Goldreich would elude a nationwide search and, "disguised as priests", make it to Swaziland (which was surrounded by South Africa), and on September 8, would charter a plane to fly to Tanganyika.[3]
  • 20 – The Israeli government informs the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure that no arms, ammunition, or strategic materials are exported from Israel to South Africa in any form, directly or indirectly.
  • 20 – Mauritius bars South Africa and Portugal from her sea- and airports.
October
Unknown date

Births

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Deaths

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Railways

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Class 5E1, Series 2

Locomotives

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  • The South African Railways places the first of 130 Class 5E1, Series 2 electric locomotives in mainline service. These are the first electric locomotives to be built in South Africa in quantity.[5][6]

Sports

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References

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  1. ^ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
  2. ^ Nelson Mandela, Conversations with Myself (Random House Digital, 2010)
  3. ^ Gideon Shimoni, Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa (University Press of New England, 2003) p67
  4. ^ De Kock, Sita (1968). Die Bosmans van Suid-Afrika, 1707-1965 (in Afrikaans). Pretoria: Van Schaik. p. 33. OCLC 814141210.
  5. ^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 128. ISBN 0869772112.
  6. ^ 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