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

The following lists events that happened during1958 in South Africa.

• Monarch: QueenElizabeth II.
• Governor-General andHigh Commissioner for Southern Africa:Ernest George Jansen.
• Prime Minister:Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom (until 24 August),Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (starting 2 September).
• Chief Justice:Henry Allan Fagan.

April

• 16 – The last general election of theUnion of South Africa takes place.

May

• 6 – Margaret Rheeder is hanged inPretoria for poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman.

September

• 2 –Hendrik Verwoerd becomes the 6thPrime Minister of South Africa.

October

• 13 –Penny Coelen is crowned asMiss World 1958 during the 8th Miss World pageant, the first South African to win the title.

December

• 12–14 – The 46th Annual Conference of theAfrican National Congress is held inDurban.

• 27 February –Naas Botha, rugby player
• 14 April –Danie Gerber, rugby player
• 14 April –Blade Nzimande, politician, national minister, General Secretary of theSouth 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 theAfrican 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 theSouth African Railways.

• The first of fifty-fiveClass 5E, Series 3 electric locomotives.^[1]
• In June and July forty-fiveClass 1-DE General Electric type U12B locomotives are the first diesel-electrics to enter SAR service in quantity.^[1]

• 1958 in South Africa

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