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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

BIRTHS

27 January - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , politician

23 May - Estian Calitz , Academic , is born in George

Michael Lapsley , Anglican Priest and social Activist , is born in New Zealand

21 June - Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso , Artist , is born in Pimville , Soweto

DEATHS

4 May - Hendrik Adolph Mulder , Poet and Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Grahamstown