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1956 in South Africa
Summary
The following lists events that happened during
1956 in South Africa
.
←
1955
1954
1953
1956
in
South Africa
→
1957
1958
1959
Decades:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
See also:
List of years in South Africa
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
: Queen
Elizabeth II
.
Governor-General
and
High Commissioner for Southern Africa
:
Ernest George Jansen
.
Prime Minister
:
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
.
Chief Justice
:
Albert van der Sandt Centlivres
.
Events
edit
February
1 – The South African government severs
diplomatic ties
with the
Soviet Union
as a result of its support for the
South African Communist Party
.
[1]
March
16 – The
Riotous Assemblies Act
no. 17 is passed, prohibiting any outside gathering that the Minister of Justice deems a threat to public peace.
17 –
Mimi Coertse
makes her
Vienna State Opera
debut as Queen of the Night in
The Magic Flute
(
Mozart
).
August
9 –
Women's march
on the Union Buildings in
Pretoria
in protest against the pass laws.
December
5 – 156 leading activists are arrested, heralding the start of the
Treason Trial
. Among those arrested is
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
.
19 – The Four year long
Treason Trial
begins at the Drill Hall in
Johannesburg
.
Unknown date
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi is elected president of the Federation of South African Women.
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi becomes the first woman to be elected to the
African National Congress
National Executive Committee.
Segregation is introduced on buses.
Albert Lutuli
is arrested.
Births
edit
31 January –
Trevor Manuel
, politician.
2 February –
Zweli Mkhize
, politician, national minister
17 April –
Jerry Mofokeng
, actor.
29 May –
Anant Singh
, film producer, and businessman.
10 July –
Solomon Mahlangu
,
Umkhonto we Sizwe
operative
26 July –
Gordon Igesund
, football coach.
1 September –
Jeremy Baskin
, trade unionist and labour market analyst.
30 October –
Nick Mallett
,
Springboks
player &
Springboks
coach.
13 November –
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
, politician, national minister
15 December –
Tony Leon
, politician.
16 December –
Duncan Faure
, musician, member of
Rabbitt
.
23 December –
Andre Markgraaff
,
Springboks
coach.
Deaths
edit
5 April -
Manilal Gandhi
, editor, activist, and second son of
Mahatma Gandhi
, (b. 1892)
Sports
edit
South Africa at the 1956 Summer Olympics
References
edit
^
Rita M. Byrnes, ed. (1997).
South Africa: A Country Study, 3rd addition
. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 322.