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.
25 October –
Z. D. Mangoaela, Basotho folklorist and writer (b. 1883)
Railways
Locomotives
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
Papwa Sewgolum, an Indian golfer, wins the Natal Open tournament.