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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
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