1952 in South Africa

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1952
in
South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 1952 in South Africa.

Incumbents

Events

February
March
  • 23 – Ex-regent Mshiyeni, uncle of
    Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon
    , warns the Zulu people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign. In the press the King repeatedly denies having any views on the matter.
April
May
  • 3 – The first regular jet flight between South Africa and Britain is started with the arrival of a De Havilland Comet with 36 passengers at Johannesburg.
October
  • 8 – A uranium plant operated by West Rand Consolidated Mines, the first in the world to extract uranium as a by-product of the gold refining process, opens at Millsite near Krugersdorp.
  • 12 – The first uranium is worked at the West Rand plant.
Unknown date
  • Nelson Mandela is given a 9-month suspended sentence and is forbidden to leave Johannesburg for the next 6 months.

Births

Deaths

Railways

Class 4E

Railway lines opened

Locomotives

Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the

South African Railways
(SAR):

References

  1. ^ Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 191, ref. no. 200954-13
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