1949 in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during 1949 in South Africa.
Incumbents
Events
- January
- 13,14 - Durban riots against Indians
- June
- 29 – South Africa introduces its apartheid policy.
- July
- 1 – The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, Act No. 55 of 1949, is passed.
- October
- 30 – Ben Schoeman announces in Johannesburg that the NP would carry the apartheid policy through "notwithstanding what serious economic problems it might cause".
- November
- 1 – Seretse Khama and his British wife Ruth Williams Khama are declared forbidden in South Africa.
- December
- 16 – The Voortrekker Monument is officially inaugurated in Pretoria.
- Unknown date
- The University of Pretoria establishes the Graduate School of Management (GSM), the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America.[1]
- The South African Post Office begins to force Europeans and non-Europeans to stand in separate queues in post offices and serve them at different counters.
Births
- 27 January – Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, politician.
- 29 January – Eugene de Kock, South African Police colonel and assassin.
- 8 April – Fanie de Jager, operatic tenor.
- 23 May – Estian Calitz, academic.
- 2 June – Michael Lapsley, Anglican priest and activist.
- 17 July – Bill Faure, film director. (d. 1994)
- 23 July – Clive Rice, cricketer. (d. 2015)
- 24 November – Neall Ellis, helicopter pilot and mercenary.
- 28 November – Nosimo Balindlela, politician.
Deaths
- 4 May – Hendrik Adolph Mulder, poet and Afrikaans literary critic.
Railways
Locomotives
References
- ↑ Wits Business School Archived 9 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 March 2010
- ↑ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 105–107. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- ↑ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 76. ISBN 0869772112.
- ↑ South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2’0” & 3’6” Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended
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