1964 in South Africa

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

Incumbents

January

February

March

June

July

17 – Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace.
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.

November

6 – Vuyisile Mini is being hanged due to death penalty for treason together with Wilson Khayinga and Zinakile Mkaba.

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.

November

December

In the Little Rivonia Trial, sentence was introduced for another treason:<br>Wilton Mkwayi received life sentence; Dave Kitson twenty years; Laloo Chiba eighteen years; John Matthews fifteen years and Mac Maharaj twelve years.

13 January – Laurette Maritz, golfer
21 January – Mark Gleeson (journalist), soccer commentator & journalist
24 February – Wendy Oldfield, singer
18 March – Yvonne Chaka Chaka, singer & businesswoman
5 April – Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, King of the abaThembu
13 April – Colleen De Reuck, long-distance runner
16 May – Kobus Wiese, former rugby player & tv personality
18 May – Balie Swart, rugby player
10 June – Keketso Semoko, actress and producer
11 July – Gavin Hunt, football coach
20 July – Deon Lotz, actor
26 July – Pitso Mosimane, former football player & coach
3 August – Lucky Dube, reggae musician (d. 2007)
19 August – Hector Pieterson, schoolboy who was shot and killed in Soweto uprising (d. 1976)
4 September – Menzi Ngubane, actor (d. 2021)
1 October – Roger De Sa, former football player & coach
5 October – Masoja Msiza, actor and poet
3 November – Brenda Fassie, singer (d. 2004)
12 December – Ringo Madlingozi, musician

7 June – Charlie Llewellyn, first non-white South African test cricketer. (b. 1876)
6 November – Vuyisile Mini, South African anti-apartheid activist. (b. 1920)

The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 3 electric locomotives in mainline service, built by Union Carriage & Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal.

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