1948 in South Africa

	1948 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Events

January

• 4 – Prince Edward Islands are annexed.

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

• 4 – Daniel François Malan is elected the 5th Prime Minister of South Africa.
• 12 – The first Rembrandt cigarettes are manufactured.

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

• 2 February – Mluleki Editor George, deputy Minister of Defence.
• 9 July – Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph, composer.
• 14 July – Goodwill Zwelethini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king, is born at Nongoma.
• 10 December – Thamsanga Mnyele, artist and activist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
• Julian Motau, artist.

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 7 June – Free State: Whites to Odendaalsrus, 24 miles 27 chains (39.2 kilometres).