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1953 in South Africa

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Events

May
  • 9 – The Liberal Party of South Africa is formed in Cape Town by Alan Paton.
    • July
  • 29 – Santam Insurance Company is registered, following the separation of trust and insurance operations.
    • September
  • Mimi Coertse leaves South Africa for London.
    • December
  • 18–20 – The 42nd Annual Conference of the African National Congress takes place in Queenstown.
    • Unknown date
  • The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), banned by the National Party government, relaunches itself underground as the South African Communist Party (SACP).

    • Births

  • 13 January – Derek Hanekom, activist and politician, is born in Cape Town.
  • 30 January – Paul Emile Rossouw, athlete, is born in Springs.

    • Deaths

  • 14 March – Sir Robert N. Kotzé, a mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines, dies in Cape Town at the age of 82.
  • 1 July – Totius, Afrikaans poet, dies in Pretoria at the age of 76.

    • Railway lines opened

  • 14 October – Cape – Lohatla to Sishen, 17 miles 3 chains (27.4 kilometres).

    • Locomotives

    Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

    Contents

  • The first of ninety Class 25 4-8-4 Northern type condensing steam locomotives.
  • The first of fifty Class 25NC non-condensing versions of the Class 25.

    • Football

  • 22 November – In a friendly match the South Africa national football team loses 1-3 to the Portugal national football team at the National Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal.

    • References

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