1929 in South Africa
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Incumbents
Events
- June
- 14 â 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 â Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways on 1 February 1934.[1]
- August
- 26 â Union Airways commences operations.[1]
Births
- 23 May â Joe Modise, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2001)
- 2 July â Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete.[2]
- 21 August â Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2017)
- 19 October â Lewis Wolpert, South African-born British biologist (d. 2021)
- 25 December â Arthur Goldreich, South African-Israeli abstract painter and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2011)
Deaths
- 20 March â Ferdinand Foch, the First World War commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in France after whom Fochville was named. (b. 1851)
- 30 October â Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, mining magnate and Randlord
Railways
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Railway lines opened
- 3 April â Cape â Hermon to Porterville, 36 miles 10 chains (58.1 kilometres).[3]
- 10 April â Cape â Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, 6 miles 25 chains (10.2 kilometres).[3]
- 16 April â Free State â Wesselsbron to Bultfontein, 35 miles 45 chains (57.2 kilometres).[3]
- 31 July â Free State â Arlington to Lindley, 12 miles 26 chains (19.8 kilometres).[3]
- 12 August â Transvaal â Boshoek to Middelwit, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 kilometres).[3]
- 31 August â Transvaal â Messina to Beitbridge, 10 miles 30 chains (16.7 kilometres).[3]
- 14 November â Transvaal â Derwent to Stoffberg, 37 miles 73 chains (61.0 kilometres).[3]
- 1 December â South West Africa â 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]