1949 in South Africa

Events

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.
• Zulus riot against Indian-owned businesses in Durban.

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

Class 24

Locomotives

• The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 24 2-8-4 Berkshire type branchline steam locomotives in service, most of them on the South West Africa System.^[2][3][4]

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