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The following lists events that happened during 1968 in South Africa.

Incumbents

1 – Magnus Malan is appointed as Officer Commanding of the Military Academy in Saldanha.^[2]

10 – Jacobus Johannes Fouché becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa.^[1]
20 – A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes after take-off from Windhoek, killing 122 of the 129 on board.
30 – The bill establishing five universities for Blacks comes into force.

The Liberal Party of South Africa is banned by the government.
Dorothy Nyembe is arrested for the second time and charged under the Suppression of Communism Act.
In the Villa Peri campaign, the Azanian People's Liberation Army tries to infiltrate members into South Africa via Botswana and Mozambique.
The South African Bureau of State Security is formed independently of the South African Police, accountable to the Prime Minister.

In July, the South African Railways places the first of 115 Class 33-400 General Electric type U20C diesel-electric locomotives in service in South West Africa.^[4]^[5]

17 September – The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when South Africa refuses to accept the presence of Basil D'Oliveira in the side.

^ ^a ^b ^c Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
^ Malan, Magnus (2006). My lewe saam met die SA Weermag [My life with the SA Army] (in Afrikaans) (1st ed.). Hatfield, Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis. ISBN 978-1-86919-113-9.
^ Rall, Maureen (2002). Petticoat Pioneers : The History of the Pioneer Women who Lived on the Diamond Fields in the Early Years. Kimberley, South Africa: Kimberley Africana Library. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-62027-613-9.
^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0869772112.
^ 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