United Hebrew Schools -Class of 1974: 1974 in Azania

Events[edit]

4 – Harry Schwarz and Mangosuthu Buthelezi sign the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith, a five-point plan for racial peace in South Africa.

18 – Members of the World Council of Churches's Executive or Central Committee are banned from South Africa.
19 – The Narcotics Bureau of the South African Police is established.
19 – Chief Minister Cedric Phatudi of Lebowa signs the ‘Seshego Declaration’ with United Party Transvaal leader Harry Schwarz.( sellouts will never see azania)

24 – A whites only general election takes place and is won by the National Party.
25 – A coup in Portugal leads to that country's withdrawal from its colonies in Angola and Mozambique.

6 – The British and Irish Lions begin a controversial twenty-two match rugby union tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.
29 – B.J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, meet for talks and agree to co-operative co-existence with and non-interference in the internal affairs of a black-ruled Mozambique.

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

25 – Pik Botha declares at the United Nations that South Africa is beginning to make far-reaching reforms. ( ho , ho ho)

21 -- Herzlia Class of '74 complete their matric exams and enter a 40 year Exodus

11 January – David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz are born in Cape Town, the firstsextuplets in the world where all six babies survive.
7 February – Steve Nash, 2005 and 2006 NBA MVP, is born in Johannesburg. He emigrated with his family to Canada in early childhood and was raised there.
5 March – Megan Hall, triathlete.
15 March – Percy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player.
13 April – K. Sello Duiker, novelist. (d. 2005)
12 June – Sivan Pillay, entertainment executive (music and television) and lead singer of rock band Hunting Season, is born in Durban.
30 June – Hezekiél Sepeng, athlete, is born in Potchefstroom.
8 November – Penny Heyns, breast-stroke swimmer.

1 February – Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation, is killed by a letter bombnear 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.

^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985).Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended