1974 in South Africa

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	1974 in South Africa
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Years in South Africa

Events

January

• 4 January – Harry Schwarz met with Mangosuthu Buthelezi signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith, 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

September

• 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)
• 5 March — Megan Hall, triathlete
• 15 March — Percy Montgomery, Springboks rugby player
• 13 April — K. Sello Duiker, novelist (d. 2005)
• 30 June — Hezekiél 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
• 8 November — Penny Heyns, breaststroke swimmer

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