1955 in South Africa
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See also: 1954 in South Africa, other events of 1955, 1956 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
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January
- Mimi Coertse mades her debut as the First Flower girl in Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Karl Bohm conducting.
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March
- 4 - 5 March - The Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is held at the Trades Hall in Johannesburg
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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
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Unknown date
- United Kingdom and South Africa sign an agreement in Simonstown for bilateral naval defence
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Births
- Mbongeni Ngema, a writer, lyricist, composer and director is born in Verulam
- 20 June - Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, artist, is born in Soweto
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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
