1935 in South Africa

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 starts reclaiming 480 acres (1.9 km²) of land on the foreshore.

Births

• 5 March – Durant Sihlali, artist, is born in Germiston.
• 22 April – Sathyandranath Ragunanan Maharaj, political activist, is born in Newcastle, Natal.
• 29 April – Tom van Vollenhoven, rugby player.
• 29 May – André Phillipus Brink, author, is born in Vrede, Orange Free State.

Deaths

• 28 March – Tielman Roos, politician and former Minister of Justice, dies at the age of 56 after a long struggle against ill health.

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 19 October – Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 miles 68 chains (31.9 kilometres).^[1]

Locomotives

Four new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

• The first of forty-four Class 15E 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^[2]:62–63
• Six Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific type passenger steam locomotives.^{[3]:71-72[2]:67-68}
• Fifty Class 19C 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^{[3]:68–71[2]:69-72}
• A single experimental Class 20 2-10-2 Santa Fe type locomotive.^{[3]:71, 107[2]:73-74[4]:63-64}

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.

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