1934 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1934 in South Africa.

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in South Africa → 1935 1936 1937
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

Incumbents

• Monarch: King George V.
• Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Claredon.
• Prime Minister: James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
• Chief Justice: John Wessels.

Events

February

• 1 – South African Airways is inaugurated and takes over the passenger and goods air services from Union Airways.

July

• 9 – The Hitler Youth movement is prohibited in South West Africa.

Unknown date

• The Slums Act is passed, giving municipalities and the government the authority to acquire slum properties.
• The Statute of Westminster is ratified in inference by South Africa.

Births

• 5 January – Phil Ramone, recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, co-founder of A & R Recording, Inc. (d. 2013).
• 14 January – Laurie Ackermann, Constitutional Court of South Africa judge.
• 8 May – Sibusiso Bengu, politician.
• 26 May – Dullah Omar, lawyer and politician. (d. 2004)
• 5 August – Zakes Mokae, actor (d. 2009)
• 8 August – Sam Nzima, photographer who took what became the well known image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising (d. 2018)
• 3 October – Harold Henning, golfer. (d. 2004)
• 8 October – Kader Asmal, activist, politician and professor of human rights. (d. 2011)
• 9 October – Abdullah Ibrahim, pianist and composer.
• Peter Beighton, geneticist, in England.
• 20 October – Mary Peach, film and television actress.
• 8 November – Edward Bhengu, activist and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 2010).

Deaths

• 27 March – Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State. (b. 1844)
• 28 July – Louis Tancred, cricketer. (b. 1876)

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 26 February – Transvaal – Northam to Thabazimbi, 28 miles 72 chains (46.5 kilometres).[1]
• 29 July – Transvaal – Germiston to Elsburg, 2 miles 49 chains (4.2 kilometres).[1]
• 21 September – Transvaal – Tuinplaas to Marble Hall, 36 miles 36 chains (58.7 kilometres).[1]
• 15 October – Cape – Kleinstraat to Matroosberg, 8 miles 48 chains (13.8 kilometres).[1]

Sports

References

1. Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 190, ref. no. 200954-13