1949 in South Africa

Events

June

• 29 – South Africa introduces its apartheid policy.

October

• 30 – B.J. 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 are declared forbidden by the Union government in South Africa.

December

• 16 – The Voortrekker Monument is officially opened in Pretoria.

Unknown date

• The University of Pretoria establishes the Graduate School of Management (GSM),^[1] the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America.^[2]
• The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act is passed.
• 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.
• Zulus riot against Indian-owned businesses in Durban.

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.
• 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.

Railways

Locomotives

• The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 24 2-8-4 Berkshire type branchline steam locomotives in service.^{[3]:105–107[4]:76[5]}

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