1964 in South Africa

Incumbents

• State President: Charles Robberts Swart.^[1]
• Prime Minister: Hendrik Verwoerd.

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

• 17 – Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace.^[2]
• 24 – John Harris, a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park Station, killing 77-year-old Ethel Rhys and injuring 23 others.

August

• 18 – The International Olympic Committee bans South Africa from the Tokyo Olympics on the grounds that its teams are racially segregated.

Unknown date

• 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 August – Lucky Dube, reggae musician. (d. 2007)
• 3 November – Brenda Fassie, singer. (d. 2004)

Deaths

• 7 June – Charlie Llewellyn, first non-white South African test cricketer. (b. 1876)

Railways

Class 5E1, Series 3

Locomotives

• The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 3 electric locomotives in mainline service, built by Union Carriage & Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal.^[3][4]

Sports

• Papwa Sewgolum, an Indian golfer, wins the Dutch Open tournament for the third time.

References