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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 in Afrikaans, English or both.
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
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 ...
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