1974 in South Africa
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See also: 1973 in South Africa, other events of 1974, 1975 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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[edit] Events
[edit] March
- 18 March - members of the World Council of Churches's Executive or Central Committee are banned from South Africa
- 19 March - The Narcotics Bureau of the South African Police is founded
[edit] April
- 25 April - A coup in Portugal leds to withdrawal from its colonies in Angola and Mozambique
[edit] May
- 6 May - The British and Irish Lions begin a controversial twenty-two match rugby union tour of South Africa and Rhodesia
- 29 May - B.J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, meet for talks and agree to co-operative coexistence with, and non-interference in the internal affairs of a black-ruled Mozambique
[edit] June
- 5 June - The Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
[edit] September
- 22-23 September - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa hold talks with Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire
[edit] October
- 25 October - Pik Botha declares at the United Nations that South Africa is beginning to make far-reaching reforms
[edit] Births
- 11 January - David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz are born in Cape Town, the first sextuplets in the world where all six babies survived
- 13 April - K. Sello Duiker, novelist (d. 2005)
- 30 June - Hezekiel Sepeng, athlete, is born in Potchefstroom
[edit] Deaths
- 1 February - Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation, is killed by a letter bomb near Gaborone, Botswana
- 30 April - Johanna Suzanna Holtzhausen, a coloratura singer and member of the Music Committee of the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organisations, dies at the age of 88
