1949 in South Africa

	1949 in South Africa
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Timeline of South African history

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

Unknown

• The University of Pretoria establishes the Graduate School of Management (GSM),^[1] the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America.^[2]

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

References