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1949 In South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1949 in South Africa. Incumbents * Monarch: King George VI. * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Gideon Brand van Zyl. * Prime Minister: Daniel François Malan. * Chief Justice: Ernest Frederick Watermeyer. Events ;January * 13,14 – Durban riots against Indians ;June * 29 – South Africa introduces its apartheid policy. ;July * 1 – The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, Act No. 55 of 1949, is passed. ;October * 30 – Ben Schoeman announces in Johannesburg that the NP would carry the apartheid policy through "notwithstanding what serious economic problems it might cause". ;November * 1 – Seretse Khama and his British wife Ruth Williams Khama are declared forbidden in South Africa. ;December * 16 – The Voortrekker Monument is officially inaugurated in Pretoria. ;Unknown date * The University of Pretoria establishes the Graduate School of Management (GSM), the first MBA programme to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of South Africa
From 1910 to 1961, the Union of South Africa was a self-governing country that shared a monarch with the United Kingdom and the other Dominions of the British Empire. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the governor-general of the Union of South Africa. South Africa became a republic and left the Commonwealth of Nations on 31 May 1961. On 31 May 1994, South Africa rejoined the Republics in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth as a republic, after the end of Apartheid in South Africa, apartheid. History The monarchy was created by the South Africa Act 1909 which united four British colonies in Southern Africa: British Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony, Transvaal. The act also made provisions for admitting Company rule in Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia as a fifth Provinces of South Africa, province of the union in the future, but Southern Rhodesian voters rejected this option in a 1922 Southe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
