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1949 in South Africa

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1949
in
South Africa

Decades:
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The following lists events that happened during 1949 in South Africa.

Incumbents

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Events

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January
  • 13,14 – Durban riots against Indians
June
  • 29 – South Africa introduces its apartheid policy.
July
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
December
Unknown date
  • The University of Pretoria establishes the Graduate School of Management (GSM), the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America.[1]
  • The South African Post Office begins to force Europeans and non-Europeans to stand in separate queues in post offices and serve them at different counters.

Births

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Deaths

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  • 4 May – Hendrik Adolph Mulder, poet and Afrikaans literary critic.

Railways

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Class 24

Locomotives

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  • The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 24 2-8-4 Berkshire type branchline steam locomotives in service, most of them on the South West Africa System.[2][3][4]

Sport

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7.1 Golf

  • Bobby Locke tied with Harry Bradshaw (Ireland) both scored 283 (−5).Bobby Locke then won the 36 holes play-off by 12 shots. British Open championship. Royal St. Georges Golf Club. Sandwich. 6–9 July 1949.

7.2 Tennis

  • Eric Sturgess & Sheila Summers became the South Africa's first Wimbledon champions when they beat John Bromwich (Australia) & Louis Brough (USA), 8–7, 9–11, 7–5, to win the mixed doubles final.
  • Eric Sturgess was awarded the Helms Trophy as the best athlete of the African continent.

References

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  1. ^ Wits Business School Archived 9 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 March 2010
  2. ^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 105–107. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
  3. ^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 76. ISBN 0869772112.
  4. ^ South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2'0" & 3'6" Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended