1932 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1932 in South Africa.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: King George V.
 * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Clarendon.
 * Prime Minister: James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
 * Chief Justice: Jacob de Villiers then John Wessels.

Events

 * September
 * 21 – A new embellished version of the coat of arms of South Africa is approved.

Births

 * 18 January – Peter Magubane, photographer
 * 4 March – Miriam Makeba, South African singer. (d. 2008)
 * 13 April – Barney Simon, writer, playwright and director (d. 1995)
 * 25 April – Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa
 * 27 April – Pik Botha, politician. (d. 2018)
 * 12 May – Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, lawyer. (d. 2017)
 * 11 June – Athol Fugard, author and dramatist.
 * 12 June
 * Patrick Mynhardt, actor.
 * Mimi Coertse, opera soprano.
 * 18 June – Louis Luyt, business tycoon and politician, and one-time rugby administrator (d. 2013)
 * 26 June – Harry Bromfield, cricketer.
 * 12 July – Sheena Duncan, member of the Anglican Church's Challenge Group and Black Sash movement. (d. 2010)
 * 29 November – Johann Kriegler, Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Deaths

 * 19 June – Sol Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. (b. 1876)
 * 15 July – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, playwright, poet, journalist and politician. (b. 1873)
 * 30 December – Daisy de Melker is hanged for the murder of her 20-year-old son Rhodes Cowle. (b. 1886)

Sports

 * 1932 Currie Cup