1964 in South Africa

Events

January

• 31 – The University of Port Elizabeth is established.

February

• South Africa is suspended from the International Labour Organisation.

March

• 11 – South Africa withdraws from the International Labour Organisation.

June

• 5 – South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna.
• 12 – In the Rivonia Trial Nelson Mandela's original 5-year sentence is extended to life for high treason.

July

• 24 – Frederick John Harris, a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park 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 by producer Rupert Bopape in the Johannesburg studios of Gallo Record Company,.
• The Munitions Production Board is formed in order to develop South African self-sufficiency in the manufacturing of arms.
• Neville Alexander is imprisoned on Robben Island.

Births

• 3 November – Brenda Fassie, singer, is born in Langa, Cape Town.

Railways

Locomotives

• The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 3 electric locomotives in mainline service.^[1][2]

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