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EVENTS

March

18 March - University Of The Free State is founded

May

1 May - 18 blacks are killed by police and more than 30 are injured on the Witwatersrand in a massive stay-away from work called for by the African National Congress

1 May - Springbok Radio , the SABC 's first commercial service, is inaugurated

June

24 June - The South Africa National Football Team beats the Australia National Football Team 3-2 at Kingsmead , Durban , in the Australia n tour of South Africa

July

1 July - The South Africa National Football Team beats the Australia National Football Team 2-1 at Ellis Park , Johannesburg , in the Australia n tour of South Africa

8 July - The South Africa national football team loses to the Australia national football team 1-2 at Saint George's Park , Port Elizabeth , in the Australian tour of South Africa

23 July - The South Africa national football team loses to the Australia national football team 0-2 at Hartley Vale , Cape Town , in the Australian tour of South Africa

August

5 August - A South African Air Force Squadron departs for the Korean War

6 August - The Municipality of East London decides not to approve of prospecting for oil off the city's seafront

September

26 September - Sasol (Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool, Olie en Gaskorporasie Bpk.) is registered as a company

October

23 October - Ernest George Jansen is appointed the 9th Governor-General Of The Union Of South Africa

November

2 November - South African Airways inaugurates a daily service between Johannesburg and Bulawayo , and between Johannesburg and Cape Town

December

13 December - South Africa refuses to place South-West Africa under UN trusteeship

21 December - The Gold town of Allanridge in the Free State Province is established

Unknown date

Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve is proclaimed a protected state forest

H.F. Verwoerd becomes Minister of Native Affairs and implements the forced removal of about 80 000 Africans from Sophiatown , Martindale and Newclare to Soweto

The government passes the Immorality Act , the Group Areas Act , the Suppression Of Communism Act , and the Population Registration Act (which officially divided South Africans into 'White', 'Coloured', 'Asian' or 'Native')

United States and United Kingdom sign a purchasing agreement with South Africa to supply Uranium for their Nuclear weapons programmes

BIRTHS

2 February - Richard Mzamane Mabaso , Artist , is born in Alexandra, Gauteng

DEATHS

9 May - Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal , activist and journalist, dies in Ajmer , India

11 September - Jan Smuts dies, at the age of 80, on his family farm of Doornkloof, Irene , near Pretoria