1955 in South Africa

See also: 1954 in South Africa, other events of 1955, 1956 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

Events

January

• Mimi Coertse mades her debut as the First Flower girl in Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Karl Bohm conducting.

March

• 4 – 5 March – The Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is held at the Trades Hall in Johannesburg

December

• 17 – 18 December – African National Congress' 44th Annual Conference is held in Bloemfontein

 – Lillian Masediba Ngoyi becomes a member of the Transvaal African National Congress' executive

Unknown date

• United Kingdom and South Africa sign an agreement in Simonstown for bilateral naval defence

Births

• Mbongeni Ngema, a writer, lyricist, composer and director is born in Verulam

Deaths

• 13 March – Benjamin Jennings Caddy, a militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 miners strike and who is regarded as the doyen of the trade union movement in South Africa, dies in Johannesburg