1964 in South Africa
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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- 31 January - The University of Port Elizabeth is established
[edit] February
- South Africa is suspended from the International Labour Organisation
[edit] March
- 11 March - South Africa withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
[edit] June
- Nelson Mandela's original 5 year sentence is commuted for life for high treason in the Rivonia Trial
- 5 June - South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna
[edit] July
- 24 July - Frederick John Harris, a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park Station (Johannesburg's main railway station) killing Ethel Rhys, a 77 year old woman and injuring 23 others
- Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal for Peace
[edit] Unknown date
- Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, an Indian golfer, wins the Dutch Open tournament for the third time
- The African National Congress establishes offices in Dar-es-Salaam
- The Mahotella Queens are formed in the Johannesburg studios of Gallo Record Company, by producer Rupert Bopape
- The Munitions Production Board is formed in order to develop South African self-sufficiency in the manufacturing of arms
[edit] Births
- 27 July - Verinda Scott, Born in Pretoria, South Africa.
- 3 November - Brenda Fassie, singer, is born in Langa, Cape Town
