1975 in South Africa
See also: 1974 in South Africa, other events of 1975, 1976 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
March
- 19 March - The Labour Party wins the second elections to the Coloured Persons' Representative Council
- 27 March - The government announces that it will consolidate the 113 separate homeland areas into 36 Bantustans
April
- Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs becomes the 4th State President of South Africa
- 30 April - The World Meteorological Organization suspends South Africa from membership because of racial discrimination
May
- 6 May The government announces that it will provide all Black children with free and compulsory education
June
- 25 June - The People's Republic of Mozambique is created
September
- 24 September - Major Van der Wals and Major Hoitzhausen, South African Defence Force liaison officers are sent to Angola to help UNITA
October
- 2 October - The South African Defence Forces invade Angola in Operation Savannah
November
- 11 November - The People's Republic of Angola is created
- 25 November - A South African Air Force Cessna 185 is shot down south of the town of Ebo, in the Cuanza Sul province of Angola. Pilot 2nd Lieutenant Keith Williamson, Co-Pilot 2nd Lieutenant Eric Thompson and South African Army battalion third-in-command Captain Daniel Taljaard are killed.
Unknown date
- The Progressive Party absorbs the Reform Party, a faction of the United Party, and became the Progressive Reform Party
- Lillian Masediba Ngoyi ban confining her to Orlando Township in Johannesburg and forbidding her to attend any gatherings is renewed, this time for 5 years
Births
Deaths
- 8 May - Bram Fischer, former South African Communist Party leader, dies of cancer while under house arrest at his brother house in Bloemfontein
Categories
Years in South Africa | 1975 by country