1949 in South Africa

1949 in South Africa

"See also:"
1948 in South Africa,
other events of 1949,
1950 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

* The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act is passed
* The South African Postal Services started forcing Europeans and non-Europeans to stand in separate queues in post offices and they are served at different counters
* Zulu riot against Indian-owned businesses in Durban.

June

* 29 June - South Africa began its apartheid programme

October

* 30 October - B J Schoeman announced in Johannesburg that the NP would carry the plan through for its apartheid policy "notwithstanding what serious economic problems it might cause"

November

* 1 November - Seretse Khama and his British wife Ruth were declared forbidden by the Union government in South Africa

December

* 16 December - The Voortrekker Monument was officially opened in Pretoria

Births

* 27 January - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, politician
* 23 May - Estian Calitz, academic, is born in George
* 2 June - Michael Lapsley, Anglican priest and social activist, is born in New Zealand
* 21 June - Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto
* 28 November - Nosimo Zisiwe Beauty Balindlela, Premier of the Provincial Government of the Eastern Cape, is born
* 15 December - Fanie Pretorius, founder Member of Die Grafsteensangers is born in Pretoria

Deaths

* 4 May - Hendrik Adolph Mulder, poet and Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Grahamstown


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