General South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Speech Convention in Johannesburg proclaims May 1st as Freedom Day and calls on all organisations to go into … is held countrywide. June 26 is observed as South African Freedom Day, until 1994, when the date of the first … 27 April, became an official public holiday known as Freedom Day. 7 July, The Group Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950, …