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词条 1981 in South Africa
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  1. Incumbents

  2. Events

  3. Births

  4. Deaths

  5. Railways

     Locomotives 

  6. Sports

     Athletics  Rugby 

  7. References

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The following lists events that happened during 1981 in South Africa.

Incumbents

  • State President: Marais Viljoen.[1]
  • Prime Minister: P.W. Botha.
  • Chief Justice: Frans Lourens Herman Rumpff.

Events

January
  • 25 – The largest part of the town Laingsburg is swept away within minutes by one of the strongest floods ever experienced in the Great Karoo.
  • 30 – The South African Defence Force launches Operation Beanbag and raids a suspected Umkhonto we Sizwe safe area in the suburb of Matola, Maputo, Mozambique, killing 12 to 24 people. The numbers reported killed vary.[2]
February
  • 9 – Tuks FM (107.2FM), the University of Pretoria's campus radio station, is established.[3]
  • Two people are injured when a bomb explodes in a Durban shopping centre.
April
  • 1 – The South African Railways and Harbours changes its name to the South African Transport Services.
  • 14 – A section of railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid is destroyed by Umkhonto we Sizwe and coal trucks are derailed.
  • 16 – Bishop Desmond Tutu is arrested and his passport is confiscated.
  • 21 – Limpet mines explode and destroy two transformers at a sub-station in Durban.
May
  • 6 – The railway in the Hoedspruit area is damaged.
  • 14 – The United Nations General Assembly publishes a blacklist of 65 multi-national companies and some 270 sports persons who have links with South Africa.
  • 21 – A bomb explodes and damages the Port Elizabeth rail link to Johannesburg and Cape Town.
  • 25 – A pamphlet bomb explodes in Durban.
  • 25 – The Fort Jackson Police station is attacked.
  • 25 – The railway line near Soweto is damaged.
  • 25 – The railway line on the Natal South Coast is damaged.
  • 25 – Power lines are cut in Vrede.
  • 25 – A series of terrorist actions in support of Republic Day protests are admitted by Umkhonto we Sizwe.
  • 27 – A bomb explodes in Durban destroying a South African Defence Force recruiting building.
June
  • 1 – Three offices of the Progressive Federal Party are firebombed in Johannesburg, with no injuries.
  • 4 – The police station in Meyerton is attacked by terrorists.
  • 11 – The railway line on the Natal North coast is maliciously damaged.
  • 16 – The railway line near East London is maliciously damaged.
  • 26 – Two bombs explode at the Durban Cenotaph.
  • 28 – The railway near Empangeni is maliciously damaged.
  • 30 – Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is arrested under the Internal Security Act.
July
  • 3 – A limpet mine is found at the fuel storage yard in Alberton and defused.
  • 21 – Six bomb explosions at sub-stations in Pretoria, Middelburg, and Ermelo disrupt power supply.
  • 26 – Two bombs explode at 05:50 and 06:10 in central Durban. Three people are injured and extensive damage is caused to motor vehicle firms.
August
  • 6 – A bomb explodes in an East London shopping complex minutes before rush hour.
  • 8 – A bomb explodes in a Port Elizabeth shopping centre in similar manner to the East London bomb.
  • 11 – The Voortrekkerhoogte Military Base outside Pretoria is attacked with RPG-7s. Two British citizens, Nicolas Heath and Bonnie Lou Muller, are identified as accomplices in the assault.
  • 19 – The railway line near East London is maliciously damaged.
  • 23 – The South African Defence Force attacks South-West Africa People's Organisation bases in Xangongo and Ongiva, southern Angola during Operation Protea.
September
  • 2 – Two policemen and two civilians, one a child, are killed during an attack on Mabopane Police station.
  • 12 – A bomb damages the main railway line at Delville Wood near Durban.
October
  • 10 – Umkhonto we Sizwe attacks government offices of the Department of Co-operation and Development. Four civilians are injured.
  • 21 – Umkhonto we Sizwe destroys a transformer in Evander and a water pipeline feeding Sasol III (Secunda CTL) in Secunda.
  • 26 – Two policemen are killed during an attack on Sibasa Police station.
November
  • 1 – The Jeppes Reef House near the Swaziland border, occupied by the South African Defence Force, comes under RPG-7 attack.
  • 1 – The South African Defence Force attacks South-West Africa People's Organisation bases in Chitequeta, south-eastern Angola, during Operation Daisy.
  • 9 – A bomb explodes at the Orlando Magistrates Court in Soweto.
  • 12 – Rosslyn sub-station in Pretoria is damaged by 4 limpet mines.
  • 27 – Cedric Mayson, a former Methodist minister, is arrested.
December
  • 4 – South Africa grants Ciskei independence.
  • 9 – The offices of the Chief Commissioner of the Department of Co-operation and Development in Cape Town is attacked.
  • 14 – A Pretoria sub-station is bombed.
  • 23 – Eastern Cape provincial buildings in Duncan Village are damaged in an Umkhonto we Sizwe attack.
  • 26 – The Wonderboompoort Police station is attacked.
Unknown date
  • Trevor Manuel becomes the General Secretary of the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee.
  • Bulelani Ngcuka is detained by police for eight months.
  • A Security Police counter-insurgency unit is started by Dirk Coetzee, Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner with 16 police officers at Vlakplaas.

Births

  • 11 February – Alexander Peternell, equestrian rider
  • 15 February – Lee-Anne Pace, golfer
  • 16 April – Gareth Echardt, figure skater
  • 4 May – Jacques Rudolph, cricketer
  • 11 May – Terry Pheto, actress
  • 21 May – Jacques le Roux, tenor singer
  • 29 May – Iain Evans, field hockey player
  • 19 June
    • Quintin Geldenhuys, South African-born Italian rugby player
    • Dorian James, badminton player
  • 6 July – Jenna Challenor, long-distance runner

Deaths

  • 19 November – Griffiths Mxenge, activist. (b. 1935)

Railways

Locomotives

  • 5 February – Rebuilding of the Class 26 4-8-4 steam locomotive, popularly known as the Red Devil, is completed at the Salt River Works in Cape Town.[4]
  • Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways:
    • May – One hundred Class 37-000 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT26M2C diesel-electric locomotives.[5][6]
    • The first of eighty-five Class 6E1, Series 9 electric locomotives.[5][7]

Sports

Athletics

  • 17 October – Mark Plaatjes wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:16:17 in Potchefstroom.

Rugby

  • 30 May – The South African Springboks beat Ireland 23-15.
  • 6 June – The Springboks beat Ireland 12-10.
  • 14 August – The South African Springbok tour in New Zealand elicits protests.

References

1. ^Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
2. ^{{Jeffery-People's War|page=54}}
3. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.tuksfm.co.za/Custom/history.html |title=History Retrieved 1 October 2010 |access-date=25 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102051023/http://www.tuksfm.co.za/Custom/history.html |archive-date=2 January 2012 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
4. ^The Ultimate Steam Page
5. ^1 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
6. ^{{Middleton-SA Loco Guide|pages=38, 44}}
7. ^{{Paxton-Bourne|pages=128-129}}
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