1925 in South Africa

Events

• Afrikaans officially replaces Dutch as the second language after English
• The manor house of Groot Constantia is guttered by a fire
• 1 May - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales, arrives in Cape Town on a visit to South Africa
• The University of Pretoria starts the tradition of RAG (student society) in South Africa^[1]

Births

• 14 April - Colin Wells Eglin, one of the founding members and leader of the Progressive Federal Party, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town
• 30 April - Dot Serfontein, author and mother of poet Antjie Krog, is born
• 4 May - Heloise Ruth First, journalist, academic and activist, is born in Johannesburg

Deaths

• 9 January - Willem Johannes Conradie, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and author of the first children's bible in Afrikaans, dies in Stellenbosch

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