List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1955 in South Africa.
Events
- January
February
- 9 -- 2000 armed police men forcefully removed the black families of Sophiatown to the Meadowlands
- March
- 4-5 – The Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is held at the Trades Hall in Johannesburg.
- 23 – The Meadowridge garden city opens near Cape Town.
- 25 – The Appeal Court bench increases from six to eleven members.
- April
- 22 – The National Tea and Coffee Company is founded.
- May
- 19 – The Black Sash, a non-violent white women's resistance organization, is founded by Jean Sinclair, Ruth Folley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson.
- June
- August
- 30 – Rondalia (a tourist club) is founded.
- December