1974 in South Africa

1974 in South Africa

"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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Events

January

*4 January - Harry Schwarz met with Mangosuthu Buthelezi and agreed on a five-point 5 point plan for racial peace in South Africa.

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
* 19 March - Chief Minister Cedric Phatudi of Lebowa signed the ‘Seshego Declaration’ with the United Party Transvaal leader, Harry Schwarz and the United Party M.P. for Durban North aiming at peaceful change, a federal system and a stake in society for black people.

April

* 24 April - Whites only general election is held. Won by the National Party
* 25 April - A coup in Portugal leds to withdrawal from its colonies in Angola and Mozambique

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

June

* 5 June - The Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan

eptember

* 22-23 September - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa hold talks with Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire

October

* 25 October - Pik Botha declares at the United Nations that South Africa is beginning to make far-reaching reforms

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
* 7 February – Steve Nash, 2005 and 2006 NBA MVP, is born in Johannesburg (emigrated with his family to Canada in early childhood and raised there)
* 15 March – Percy Montgomery, Springboks rugby player
* 13 April - K. Sello Duiker, novelist (d. 2005)
* 30 June - Hezekiel Sepeng, athlete, is born in Potchefstroom
* 12 June - Sivan Pillay, Entertainment Executive (music and television), lead singer of Rock band Hunting Season, is born in Durban

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


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