1933 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1933 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: John Wessels.

Events

 * May
 * 29 – The first consignment of 10,000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives at Cape Town from London on the Union-Castle Line's Carnarvon Castle.

Births

 * 10 March – Allister Sparks, writer, journalist, and political commentator (d. 2016)
 * 13 March – Solomon Sedibane, sculptor, in Sekhukhuneland in Transvaal.
 * 29 March – Stanley Mokgoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, in Pietersburg.
 * 11 April – Denis Goldberg, anti-apartheid movement activist, accused No. 3 in the Rivonia Trial (d. 2020)
 * 28 October – Constand Viljoen, South African military commander, politician & co-founded the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front)
 * 15 December – Donald Woods, journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001).

Deaths

 * 13 March – Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory. (b. 1861)

Sports

 * 8 July – The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands.