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| 1954 (In the year)
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The first black African to become a Bahá'í was Klaas Mtsweni, a Zulu in Pretoria, South Africa. There being several different tribes and peoples in South Africa, there were several "firsts" in relation to declarations of faith. Tswana - Dorothy and Ephens Senne of Phokeng; Xhosa - Reginald Bukula of Cofimvaba; Southern Sotho - Andrew Mofokeng; Northern Sotho - William Masehla; Coloured - Max and May Seepe of Western Township, Johannesburg; Cape Coloured - Annie and Tommy Heuvel in Cape Town; Malay - the Gallow family in Cape Town; White - Florence Norman in Durban, Norman Bailey in Grahamstown, Afrikaner - Sue Hofmeyr in Cape Town. [Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa since 1911] | - First believers by background | firsts Bahá'ís in South Africa |
| 1954 (In the year)
195- |
The purchase of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Istanbul was concluded. [SS38] | House of Bahá'u'lláh (Istanbul); Istanbul, Turkey; Purchases and exchanges; Turkey |
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