1932 in South Africa
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Incumbents
Events
- September
- 21 â A new embellished version of the coat of arms of South Africa is approved.
Births
- 18 January â Peter Magubane, photographer
- 4 March â Miriam Makeba, South African singer. (d. 2008)[1]
- 13 April â Barney Simon, writer, playwright and director (d. 1995)
- 25 April â Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa
- 27 April â Pik Botha, politician. (d. 2018)[2]
- 12 May â Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, lawyer. (d. 2017)[3]
- 11 June â Athol Fugard, author and dramatist. (d. 2025)
- 12 June
- Patrick Mynhardt, actor. (d. 2007)
- Mimi Coertse, opera soprano.
- 18 June â Louis Luyt, business tycoon and politician, and one-time rugby administrator (d. 2013)
- 26 June â Harry Bromfield, cricketer.
- 12 July â Sheena Duncan, member of the Anglican Church's Challenge Group and Black Sash movement. (d. 2010)
- 29 November â Johann Kriegler, Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Deaths
- 19 June â Sol Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. (b. 1876)
- 15 July â Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, playwright, poet, journalist and politician. (b. 1873)
- 30 December â Daisy de Melker is hanged for the murder of her 20-year-old son Rhodes Cowle. (b. 1886)[4]