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EVENTS

The Castle in Cape Town is proclaimed a National Monument

February - Trolley buses (trackless trams) begin operation in Cape Town

7 April - The Representation Of Natives Act no 16 of 1936 is passed, the first of a series of laws to diminish the voting rights of non-Whites in the Cape Province

2 July - Die Vaderland , the first Afrikaans daily Newspaper , starts publishing in Johannesburg

BIRTHS

21 June - Lionel Davis , artist, is born in Cape Town

DEATHS

2 July - Lionel Phillips , mining magnate, chairman of the South African Chamber Of Mines and politician, dies at Vergelegen, Somerset West at the age of 80