1924 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1924 in South Africa.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: King George V.
 * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:
 * Prince Arthur of Connaught (until 20 January).
 * The Earl of Athlone (from 21 January).
 * Prime Minister:
 * Jan Smuts (until 29 June).
 * J.B.M. Hertzog (from 30 June).
 * Chief Justice: James Rose Innes.

Events

 * January
 * 21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is appointed the 4th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.


 * March
 * 5 – The first one-day flight between Cape Town and Pretoria takes place.


 * June
 * 30 – J.B.M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa.


 * Unknown date
 * The Taung Child is discovered.

Births

 * 23 February – Allan Cormack, South African-American physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate. (d. 1998)
 * 14 July – Stephen Fry, Springbok rugby captain. (d. 2002)
 * 26 July – Elias Motsoaledi, political activist. (d. 1994)
 * 8 September – Hazel Brooks, actress (d. 2002)
 * 28 November – Dennis Brutus, poet and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2009)
 * 5 December – Robert Sobukwe, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 1978)

Railway lines opened

 * 16 April – Free State – Wepener to Zastron, 46 mi.
 * 19 April – Cape – Klipdale to Bredasdorp, 25 mi.
 * 1 May – Transvaal – Balfour North to Grootvlei, 11 mi.
 * 16 June – Cape – Pinelands to Langa, 2 mi.
 * 24 July – Free State – Heilbron to Petrus Steyn, 31 mi.
 * 10 September – Transvaal – Lydenburg to Steelpoort, 74 mi.
 * 19 September – South West Africa – Gobabis Junction in Windhoek to Ondekaremba, 29 mi.
 * 22 September – Transvaal – Naboomspruit to Singlewood, 20 mi.
 * 3 November – Cape – Franklin to Kokstad, 25 mi.
 * 4 November – Cape – Franklin to Matatiele, 47 mi.
 * 14 November – Cape – Oudtshoorn to Calitzdorp, 35 mi.
 * 15 December – Cape – Touws River to Kareevlakte, 41 mi.
 * 15 December – Transvaal – Hercules to Schoemansville, 17 mi.

Locomotives

 * The first of six Class GC branchline 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt articulated locomotives.
 * A single Class ES1 battery-powered shunting locomotive at the construction site of the Colenso power station.