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.SAA Museum Society: South African Airways, A Brief History
(Accessed on 8 March 2017)

;August
* 26 – Union Airways commences operations.

Births

* 23 May – Joe Modise, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2001)
* 2 July – Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete.SR/Olympic Sports - Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger
(Accessed on 8 March 2017)
* 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, .''Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway'', Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
* 10 April – Cape – Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, .
* 16 April – Free State – Wesselsbron to Bultfontein, .
* 31 July – Free State – Arlington to Lindley, .
* 12 August – Transvaal – Boshoek to Middelwit, .
* 31 August – Transvaal – Messina to Beitbridge, .
* 14 November – Transvaal – Derwent to Stoffberg, .
* 1 December – South West Africa – Seeis to Witvlei, .

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.South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2’0” & 3’6” Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended
* 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.''Clayton Steam Rail Coach - From the Dave Rhind Collection'', Railway History Group of South Africa, Pinelands, Cape Town.
* 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.

References

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