1948 in South Africa
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1948 in South Africa .
Incumbents
Events
January
March
13 – Dr. K. Goonam leads a batch of twelve passive resisters across the Natal -Transvaal border.
May
26 – The National Party wins the General Elections in coalition with the Afrikaner Party (AP).
28 – The National Party forms a new South African government as incumbent prime minister Jan Smuts loses his seat.
June
September
8 – A group of 83 German children, orphaned by the war, arrives in Table Bay.
10 – The German orphans reach Pretoria to settle in South Africa.
October
15 – Foreign Minister Eric Louw informs Commonwealth leaders that South Africa is not prepared to allow interference in its domestic affairs.
Births
27 January – Irvin Khoza , football administrator, chairman of Orlando Pirates F.C. , president of the Premier Soccer League
2 February – Mluleki George , politician.
10 February – Paul Slabolepszy , actor and playwright.
24 June – Dave Orchard , cricketer.
9 July – Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph , composer, pianist and teacher.
18 July – Graham Spanier , 16th President of Pennsylvania State University
27 July – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu , King of the Zulu .
27 July – Gavin Watson , businessman (d. 2019).
30 July – John Briscoe , South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2014)
5 September – Pumza Dyantyi , politician and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2020)
17 October – S'bu Ndebele , politician, government minister
25 October – Lauritz Dippenaar , self made millionaire businessman, investor and banker who was the Chairman of FirstRand financial Group.
10 December – Thamsanga Mnyele , artist and activist. (d. 1985)
13 December
Deaths
Railways
Railway lines opened
Sports
South Africa at the 1948 Summer Olympics
English cricket team in South Africa in 1948–49
References
^ "Marion Island – History" . Sanap.ac.za. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2012 .
^ Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway , Statement No. 19, p. 191, ref. no. 200954-13
1948 in Africa
Sovereign states States with limited recognition
Dependencies and other territories
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