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See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during1975 in South Africa.

• State President:
  • Jim Fouché (until 8 April).^[1]
  • Jan de Klerk (acting from 9 to 18 April).^[1]
  • Nico Diederichs (from 19 April).^[1]
• Prime Minister:John Vorster.
• Chief Justice:Frans Lourens Herman Rumpff.

February

• 28 – TheFNLA approaches the South African Embassy in London and requests 40 to 50 artillery pieces to assist their cause in theAngolan Civil War.

March

• 15 –Rhodesian Prime MinisterIan Smith and senior Ministers visit South Africa for talks.
• 19 – The Labour Party wins the second elections to theColoured Persons' Representative Council.
• 21 – TheInkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement (Inkatha Yenkululeko Yezizwe) is founded by Zulu ChiefMangosuthu Buthelezi.^[2]
• 27 – The government announces that it will consolidate the 113 separatehomeland areas into 36.

April

• 19 –Nico Diederichs becomes the 4thState President of South Africa.^[1]
• 30 – TheWorld Meteorological Organization suspends South Africa from membership because of racial discrimination.

May

• 6 – The government announces that it will provide all Black children with free and compulsory education.

June

• 25 – The People's Republic ofMozambique becomes independent fromPortugal.

July

• TheProgressive Party merges with theReform Party, a faction of theUnited Party, to form theProgressive Reform Party.

August

• 25 – TheVictoria Falls Conference between Rhodesian Prime MinisterIan Smith and theUnited African National Council is held in aSouth African Railways coach on theVictoria Falls Bridge, officiated byZambian PresidentKenneth Kaunda and South African Prime MinisterJohn Vorster.
• The first Cuban forces arrive in Angola to join Russian personnel who are there to assist theMPLA who controls less than a quarter of Angolan territory.^[2]
• TheUnited States andZaire request South Africa to provide training and support for theFNLA andUNITA.^[2]

September

• 24 – Majors Kaas van der Wals and Holtzhausen,SADF liaison officers, are sent toAngola to assist UNITA.

October

• 14 – TheSADF invades Angola duringOperation Savannah in support of the FNLA and UNITA prior to the Angolan elections scheduled for 11 November.^[3]

November

• 11 – The People's Republic of Angola becomes independent from Portugal.
• 13–28 – In the Battle for Ebo,SADF and Angolan forces clash at Ebo in theCuanza Sul province of Angola.
• 19 – TheUnited States Congress approves theClark Amendment, ending aid to the FNLA and UNITA.
• 25 – ASouth African Air ForceCessna 185 is shot down south of Ebo, killing pilot 2nd Lieutenant Keith Williamson, co-pilot 2nd Lieutenant Eric Thompson andSouth African Army battalion third-in-command Captain Danie Taljaard.
• 28 –South African Navyfrigates evacuate 26SADF members from behind enemy lines atAmbrizete, 160 kilometres (99 miles) north ofLuanda in Angola.

Unknown date

• Lillian Ngoyi's ban, confining her to Orlando Township inJohannesburg and forbidding her to attend any gatherings, is renewed for five years.
• TheSouth West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit, commonly known as Operation K, is launched.
• Operation Polo, South Africa's covert military intervention in theRhodesian Bush War, begins.

• 9 January –André Vos, rugby player
• 29 January –David Tlale, fashion designer and businessman.
• 2 February –Thinus Delport, rugby player
• 4 February –Sthandiwe Kgoroge, actress.
• 21 March –Corné Krige, rugby player.
• 27 March –Bruce Jacobs, field hockey player.
• 14 April –Raymond Seopa, professional footballer.^[4]
• 16 April –Selborne Boome, rugby player.
• 23 June –Sibusiso Zuma, soccer player
• 2 July –Stefan Terblanche, rugby player.
• 7 July –Louis Koen, rugby player
• 17 July –Robbie Fleck, rugby player & coach.
• 31 July –Andrew Hall, cricketer
• 7 August –Charlize Theron, actress.
• 1 September –Winnie Ntshaba, actress.
• 11 September –Pierre Issa, soccer player
• 16 October –Jacques Kallis, all-rounder cricketer.
• 24 November –Neil McKenzie, cricketer
• 13 December –Bubu Mazibuko, actress.
• 17 December –Tim Clark, golfer.

• 21 February –Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician (b.1889)
• 8 May –Bram Fischer, formerSouth African Communist Party leader. (b. 1908)

• June – The South African Railways places the first of 124Class 36-000 General Electric type SG10B diesel-electric locomotives in service.^[5][6][7]

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