1974 in South Africa

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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

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

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

5 June - The Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan

25 October - Pik Botha declares at the United Nations that South Africa is beginning to make far-reaching reforms

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)
15 March – Percy Montgomery, Springboks rugby player
13 April - K. Sello Duiker, novelist (d. 2005)
30 June - Hezekiel 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

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