11 – Four of the defendants who had been arrested on 11 July, at theLiliesleaf Farm near Johannesburg, were able to escape their South African jail after a bribe was promised to their guard by the ANC.Harold Wolpe andArthur Goldreich, who were both white, were confined at Johannesburg's Marshall Square Police Station, in the same cell with Indian South Africans Abdulhay Jassat andMoosa Moolla, separate from the black South African defendants. Their white guard, Johannes Greeff, served three years of a six-year sentence, and later received 2,000 African pounds.[2] Wolpe and Goldreich would elude a nationwide search and, "disguised as priests", make it toSwaziland (which was surrounded by South Africa), and on 8 September, would charter a plane to fly to Tanganyika.[3]
20 – The Israeli government informs theUnited Nations Special Committee onApartheid that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure that no arms, ammunition, or strategic materials are exported from Israel to South Africa in any form, directly or indirectly.
20 –Mauritius bars South Africa and Portugal from her sea- and airports.
The South African Railways places the first of 130Class 5E1, Series 2 electric locomotives in mainline service. These are the first electric locomotives to be built in South Africa in quantity.[5][6]
