1964 in South Africa

← 1963 1962 1961 1964 in South Africa → 1965 1966 1967
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	1964 in South African sport List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1964 in South Africa.

Incumbents

• State President: Charles Robberts Swart.^[1]
• Prime Minister: Hendrik Verwoerd.
• Chief Justice: Lucas Cornelius Steyn.

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

• 13 January – Laurette Maritz, golfer
• 24 February – Wendy Oldfield, singer
• 13 April – Colleen De Reuck, long-distance runner
• 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

Sports

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

References