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A revised coinage series was introduced for 1965. [2] Denominations included 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents. Silver was replaced in coins by nickel. Initially the coinage bore the portrait of Van Riebeeck, and later the State Presidents of South Africa (except F.W. de Klerk) or the South African coat of arms. The country name was given ...
The South African Class 33-000 type GE U20C diesel-electric locomotive was designed and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by General Electric (GE) and imported. Sixty-five of these locomotives were delivered between June 1965 and January 1966, numbered in the range from 33-001 to 33-065. [1] [2]
4 – Units of the South African Defence Force 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 in Grahamstown installs a computer, the first university in South Africa to do so. Unknown date
This list shows past and current rail transport locomotive classes used in South Africa. It includes locomotives from all original operators: ... 1965: 65 SAR Class ...
On 4 October 1965, during the Apartheid in South Africa, a passenger train of the South African Railways with up to 1500 black commuters onboard derailed, killing 87 of them. As ‘revenge’ the passengers lynched a signalman and beat up another railwayman. Thousands of local black people came together in a protest march towards the disaster ...
1965 in South Africa; 0–9. 1965 Durban rail accident; 1965 in South African sport; S. SAFARI-1; South African Class 5E1, Series 4; South African Class 33-000
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 4 of 1965 was an electric locomotive. In 1965 and 1966 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 5E1, Series 4 electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in mainline service.