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← 1934 1933 1932 1935 in South Africa → 1936 1937 1938
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years 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 km) 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

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 19 October – Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 miles 68 chains (31.9 kilometres).

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.

Sports

Cricket

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

References

1. Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 190, ref. no. 200954-13
2. ^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 62–63, 67–74. ISBN 0869772112.
3. ^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 68–72, 107. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
4. Durrant, AE (1989). Twilight of South African Steam (1st ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles. pp. 3–64. ISBN 0715386387.

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