1935 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1935 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

 * February
 * 1 – The South African Airways takes over the South West African Airways which has been providing a weekly airmail service between Windhoek and Kimberley since 1932.


 * Unknown date
 * Cape Town begins to reclaim 480 acres (1.9 km2) of land on the Foreshore.

Births

 * 30 January – Albie Sachs, activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
 * 5 February – Johannes Geldenhuys, military commander (d. 2018)
 * 5 March – Durant Sihlali, artist, in Germiston. (d. 2004)
 * 22 April – Mac Maharaj, political activist, in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.
 * 29 April – Tom van Vollenhoven, Springbok rugby player. (d. 2017)
 * 29 May – André P. Brink, Sestiger author, in Vrede. (d. 2015)
 * 23 August – Sol Kerzner, business magnate, founder of Southern Sun Hotel Group, Sun International & Kerzner International (d. 2020)
 * 30 August – Peter Cartwright, actor. (d. 2013)
 * 1 November – Gary Player, professional golfer.
 * 11 November – Esther Mahlangu, artist from the Ndebele nation, bold large-scale contemporary paintings that reference her Ndebele heritage

Deaths

 * 28 March – Tielman Roos, politician and Minister of Justice. (b. 1879)
 * 2 November – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer. (b. 1905)
 * 20 May – Nontetha, Xhosa prophet

Railway lines opened

 * 19 October – Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 mi.

Locomotives
Four new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR), all with rotary cam poppet valve gear:
 * The first of forty-four Class 15E 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.
 * Six Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific type passenger steam locomotives.
 * Fifty Class 19C 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.
 * A single experimental Class 20 2-10-2 Santa Fe type locomotive.

Cricket

 * 2 July – The South African cricket team wins its first test cricket match against the English cricket team at Lord's Cricket Ground.