1956 in South Africa
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[edit] Events
[edit] February
- 1 February - The South African government requests the Soviet Union to withdraw its consulates
[edit] March
- 16 March - The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 which prohibits any outside gathering that the Minister of Justice sees as a threat to public peace, is passed.
- 17 March - Mimi Coertse makes her Vienna State Opera debut as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute (Mozart)
[edit] August
- 9 August - Women march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria in protest to the pass laws
[edit] December
- Lillian Masediba Ngoyi becomes the first woman ever to be elected to the African National Congress national executive committee
- 5 December - 156 leading activists are arrested heralding the start of the Treason Trial Among Those arrested is Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
- 19 December - The Four year long Treason Trial begins at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg
[edit] Unknown date
- Lillian Masediba Ngoyi is elected president of the Federation of South African Women
- Segregation is introduced on buses
- Albert Lutuli is arrested
[edit] Births
- 31 January - Trevor Andrew Manuel, Minister of Finance from 1996, born in Kensington, Cape Town
- 1 September - Jeremy Baskin, trade unionist and labour market analyst, is born
- 2 November - Lucas Seage, artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg
