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
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
- January 11 — David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz are born in Cape Town, the first sextuplets in the world where all six babies survived
- February 7 — Steve Nash, 2005 and 2006 NBA MVP, is born in Johannesburg (emigrated with his family to Canada in early childhood and raised there)
- March 5 — Megan Hall, triathlete
- March 15 — Percy Montgomery, Springboks rugby player
- April 13 — K. Sello Duiker, novelist (d. 2005)
- June 30 — Hezekiel Sepeng, athlete, is born in Potchefstroom
- June 12 — Sivan Pillay, Entertainment Executive (music and television), lead singer of Rock band Hunting Season, is born in Durban
- November 8 — 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
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