1929 in South Africa

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Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years 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.^[1]

August

• 26 – Union Airways commences operations.^[1]

Births

• 23 May – Joe Modise, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2001)
• 2 July – Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete.^[2]
• 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).^[3]
• 10 April – Cape – Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, 6 miles 25 chains (10.2 kilometres).^[3]
• 16 April – Free State – Wesselsbron to Bultfontein, 35 miles 45 chains (57.2 kilometres).^[3]
• 31 July – Free State – Arlington to Lindley, 12 miles 26 chains (19.8 kilometres).^[3]
• 12 August – Transvaal – Boshoek to Middelwit, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 kilometres).^[3]
• 31 August – Transvaal – Messina to Beitbridge, 10 miles 30 chains (16.7 kilometres).^[3]
• 14 November – Transvaal – Derwent to Stoffberg, 37 miles 73 chains (61.0 kilometres).^[3]
• 1 December – South West Africa – Seeis to Witvlei, 66 miles 41 chains (107.0 kilometres).^[3]

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.^[4][5]
• Thirty-six Class 19A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.^[5][6][7]
• Five Class GDA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.^[4][5][8]
• 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.^[4][7][9]
• A single self-contained steam Clayton Railmotor for low-volume passenger service.^[10]
• 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.^[5]

References

This page was last edited on 30 March 2022, at 16:34