4-10 –
P.W. Botha, Minister of Defence, visits France accompanied by General R.C. Hiemstra, Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant-General W.P. Louw, Chief of the Army and Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force.
Unknown date
Dorothy Nyembe is convicted of defeating the ends of justice by harbouring members of
Umkhonto we Sizwe and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in
Barberton Prison.
South Africa's Atomic Energy Board creates a commission to evaluate the technical and economic aspects of peaceful
nuclearexplosives for use in mines.