1932 in South Africa
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Events
- September
- 21 – A new embellished version of the coat of arms of South Africa is approved.
Births
- 22 March – Kgadime Oliver Matsepe, novelist and poet, is born in Magagamatala near Groblersdal.
- 27 April – Roelof Frederik Botha, politician, is born in Rustenburg.
- 11 June – Athol Fugard, author and dramatist, is born in Middelburg, Cape.
- 12 June – Mimi Coertse, opera soprano, is born in Durban.
- 12 July – Sheena Duncan, member of the Anglican Church’s Challenge Group and Black Sash movement, is born in Johannesburg.
Deaths
- 19 June – Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer, dies in Kimberley at the age of 55.
- 15 July – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, playwright, poet, journalist and politician, dies in Oudtshoorn aged 58.
- 30 December – Daisy de Melker (46), is hanged for the murder of her 20-year old son Rhodes Cowle, who died on 5 March 1932 of arsenic poisoning.
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