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

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

April

• 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

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
• 21 August - T. Claire Davies, biomedical engineer, is born in Johannesburg

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