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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1958 in South Africa.
- April
- May
- 6 – Margaret Rheeder is hanged in
Pretoria for poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman.
- September
- October
- December
- 27 February –
Naas Botha, rugby player
- 14 April –
Danie Gerber, rugby player
- 14 April –
Blade Nzimande, politician, national minister, General Secretary of the
South African Communist Party
- 21 April –
Senzo Mchunu, politician, national minister
- 21 April –
Lindiwe Zulu, national minister
- 30 April –
Mbhazima Shilowa, trade unionist and politician.
- 27 May –
Cheryl Carolus, activist and politician.
- 5 June –
Jackson Mthembu, politician, national minister
- 17 June –
Barbara Creecy;
anti-apartheid movement activist, member of the
African National Congress, national minister
- 28 July –
Deon van der Walt, tenor. (d. 2005)
- 4 August –
Steve Kekana, singer & songwriter
- 7 August –
Aaron Motsoaledi, politician, national minister
- 24 October –
Gcina Mhlophe, actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author
- 27 October –
Jonathan Shapiro, cartoonist
- 15 December –
Don Laka, jazz musician, songwriter, producer. Most well known for being the co-founder of record label,
Kalawa Jazmee Records.
- 2 May –
Henry Cornelius, film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. (b. 1913)
Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the
South African Railways.
- The first of fifty-five
Class 5E, Series 3 electric locomotives.
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- In June and July forty-five
Class 1-DE General Electric type U12B locomotives are the first diesel-electrics to enter SAR service in quantity.
[1]
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b Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 127–128, 137–138.
ISBN
0869772112.
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