1958 in South Africa
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[edit] Events
[edit] April
- 16 April - The last general election of the Union of South Africa is held
[edit] September
- 2 September - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd becomes the 7th Prime Minister of South Africa
[edit] December
- 12 - 14 December - The 46th Annual Conference of the African National Congress is held in Durban
[edit] Births
- 16 April - John Coulter, composer, is born
- 30 April - Mbhazima Shilowa, Congress of South African Trade Unions general-secretary and Premier of Gauteng, is born in Olifantshoek, Limpopo Province
- 27 May - Cheryl Carolus, politician is born in Silvertown, on the Cape Flats, Cape Town
- 28 July - Deon van der Walt, tenor (died 2005)
- 26 August - Mohammed Iqbal Shaik, political activist is born in Vrededorp
[edit] Deaths
- 3 May - Henry Cornelius, movie director
- 6 May- Margaret Rheeder is hanged in Pretoria for poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman
