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Years in South Africa


Events

January

March

  • 13 March - Dr K. Goonam led a batch of twelve passive resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border

May

  • 26 May - National Party wins General Elections in coalition with the Afrikaaner Party (AP)
  • 28 May - The right wing Nationalists take over in South African elections as incumbent prime minister Jan Smuta loses

June

September

  • 8 September - A group of 83 German children, orphaned by the war, arrives in Table Bay
  • 10 September - The German orphans reach Pretoria to settle in South Africa

October

  • 15 October - Eric Louw, Foreign Minister, informs Commonwealth leaders that South Africa is not prepared to allow interference in its domestic affairs

Births

Deaths


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