1964 in South Africa

Events

January

• 31 January - The University of Port Elizabeth is established

February

• South Africa is suspended from the International Labour Organisation

March

• 11 March - South Africa withdraws from the International Labour Organisation

June

• Nelson Mandela's original 5 year sentence is commuted for life for high treason in the Rivonia Trial
• 5 June - South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna

July

• 24 July - Frederick John Harris, a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park Station (Johannesburg's main railway station) killing Ethel Rhys, a 77 year old woman and injuring 23 others
• Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal for Peace

Unknown date

• Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, an Indian golfer, wins the Dutch Open tournament for the third time
• The African National Congress establishes offices in Dar-es-Salaam
• The Mahotella Queens are formed in the Johannesburg studios of Gallo Record Company, by producer Rupert Bopape
• The Munitions Production Board is formed in order to develop South African self-sufficiency in the manufacturing of arms

Births

• 27 July - Verinda Scott, Born in Pretoria, South Africa.
• 3 November - Brenda Fassie, singer, is born in Langa, Cape Town