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) 19 October – Lewis Wolpert, South African-born British biologist (d. 2021) 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.
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