1958 in South Africa

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Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II.
Governor-General and High 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.

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.^[1]
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.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 127–128, 137–138. ISBN 0869772112.

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States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)