1929 in South Africa
# 1929 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1929 in South Africa.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: King George V.
* Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Athlone.
* Prime Minister: James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
* Chief Justice: William Henry Solomon then Jacob de Villiers.

## Events

### June

* 14 – The National Party under J.B.M. Hertzog wins the South African general election with an outright majority for a second consecutive term.

### July

* 24 – Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways on 1 February 1934.

### August

* 26 – Union Airways commences operations.

## Births

* 23 May – Joe Modise, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2001)
* 2 July – Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete.
* 21 August – Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2017)
* 25 December – Arthur Goldreich, South African-Israeli abstract painter and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2011)

## Deaths

* 20 March – Ferdinand Foch, the First World War commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in France after whom Fochville was named. (b. 1851)
* 30 October – Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, mining magnate and Randlord

## Railways

### Railway lines opened

* 3 April – Cape – Hermon to Porterville, 36 miles 10 chains (58.1 kilometres).
* 10 April – Cape – Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, 6 miles 25 chains (10.2 kilometres).
* 16 April – Free State – Wesselsbron to Bultfontein, 35 miles 45 chains (57.2 kilometres).
* 31 July – Free State – Arlington to Lindley, 12 miles 26 chains (19.8 kilometres).
* 12 August – Transvaal – Boshoek to Middelwit, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 kilometres).
* 31 August – Transvaal – Messina to Beitbridge, 10 miles 30 chains (16.7 kilometres).
* 14 November – Transvaal – Derwent to Stoffberg, 37 miles 73 chains (61.0 kilometres).
* 1 December – South West Africa – Seeis to Witvlei, 66 miles 41 chains (107.0 kilometres).

### Locomotives

Six new steam locomotive types, four Cape gauge and one narrow gauge, enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

* Fourteen purpose-built Class S 0-8-0 shunting steam locomotives.
* Thirty-six Class 19A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.
* Five Class GDA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.
* The first two of eight Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type Garratt locomotives on the Durban-Cato Ridge section in Natal.
* A single self-contained steam Clayton Railmotor for low-volume passenger service.
* A single narrow gauge 0-6-0 tank locomotive, built to the same design as the German South West African Class Hc of 1907, on the Otavi Railway in South West Africa.
