1978 in South Africa
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See also: 1977 in South Africa, other events of 1978, 1979 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
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January
- Former African National Congress member, Steve Mtshali who turned state witness in various trials is shot and wounded
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February
- An unexploded bomb "capable of destroying 22 story building is found in a Johannesburg office block and defused
- 2 February - Guerrillas attack the Daveyton police station
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March
- 10 March - Bomb explodes outside the offices of the Bantu Affairs building in Port Elizabeth. One civilian is killed and three injured
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April
- 14 April - Former deputy president of the African National Congress in the Transvaal, Abel Mthembu turns state witness at the Pretoria ANC trial
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May
- 4 May - South African Defence Force airborne raid on Cassinga, Angola. See: Battle of Cassinga
- Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa, two members of the Azanian People's Organisation are arrested in Soweto
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August
- 21 August - Marais Viljoen becomes 5th State President of South Africa
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September
- Black September episode - The African National Congress attempts to kill about 500 cadres by poisoning their food because an enermy agent had escaped the screening procedures and could not be identified.
- 29 September - PW Botha succeeds Balthazar Johannes Vorster as 9th Prime Minister of South Africa
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October
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December
- December - Bomb explodes at the Soweto Community Council offices
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Unknown date
- George Bizos becomes a senior member of the Johannesburg Bar
- South Africa's Atomic Energy Corporation built South Africa's first nuclear weapon device
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Births
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Deaths
- Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, legendary golfer, dies
- 4 June - Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer, choir conductor and organist, dies in East London
