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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during1953 in South Africa.

• Monarch: QueenElizabeth II.
• Governor-General andHigh Commissioner for Southern Africa:Ernest George Jansen.
• Prime Minister:Daniel François Malan.
• Chief Justice:Albert van der Sandt Centlivres.

May

• 9 – TheLiberal Party of South Africa is formed inCape Town byAlan Paton.

July

• 29 –Santam Insurance Company is registered, following the separation of trust and insurance operations.

September

• Mimi Coertse leaves South Africa forLondon.

December

• 18–20 – The 42nd Annual Conference of theAfrican National Congress takes place inQueenstown.

Unknown date

• The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), banned by the National Party government, relaunches itself underground as theSouth African Communist Party (SACP).
• Bantu Education Act is voted, and will start 1 January 1954.

• 12 January –Steven De Groote, classical pianist. (d. 1989)
• 13 January –Derek Hanekom, activist and politician.
• 15 February –Mantfombi Dlamini, Queen Consort of the Zulu Nation. (d. 2021)
• 5 March –Tokyo Sexwale, businessman, politician and activist.
• 29 April –Bill Drummond, British musician
• 22 October –Loyiso Nongxa, mathematician.
• 7 December –Naledi Pandor, national minister

• 1 July –Totius, Afrikaans poet. (b. 1877)

• 14 October – Cape –Lohatla toSishen, 17 miles 3 chains (27.4 kilometres).^[1]

Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on theSouth African Railways (SAR):

• The first of ninetyClass 254-8-4 Northern typecondensing steam locomotives.^[2][3][4]
• The first of fiftyClass 25NC non-condensing versions of the Class 25 Condenser.^[2][3][4]

• 22 November – In a friendly match theSouth Africa national football team loses 1–3 to thePortugal national football team at the National Stadium,Lisbon,Portugal.

• 1953 in South Africa

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