1958 in South Africa explained

The following lists events that happened during 1958 in South Africa.

Incumbents

6 - Margaret Rheeder is hanged in Pretoria for poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman.

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

12–14 - The 46th Annual Conference of the African National Congress is held in Durban.

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.
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.