1934 in South Africa

Events

February

• 1 – South African Airways is inaugurated and takes over the passenger and goods air services from Union Airways.

July

• 9 – The Hitler Youth movement is prohibited in South West Africa.

Unknown date

• The Slums Act is passed, giving municipalities and the government the authority to acquire slum properties.
• The Statute of Westminster is ratified in inference by South Africa.

Births

• 14 January – Laurie Ackermann, Constitutional Court of South Africa judge.
• 8 May – Sibusiso Bengu, politician.
• 26 May – Dullah Omar, lawyer and politician. (d. 2004)
• 3 October – Harold Henning, golfer. (d. 2004)
• 8 October – Kader Asmal, activist, politician and professor of human rights. (d. 2011)
• 9 October – Abdullah Ibrahim, pianist and composer.
• Peter Beighton, geneticist, in England.

Deaths

• 27 March – Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State. (b. 1844)
• 28 July – Louis Tancred, cricketer. (b. 1876)

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 26 February – Transvaal – Northam to Thabazimbi, 28 miles 72 chains (46.5 kilometres).^[1]
• 29 July – Transvaal – Germiston to Elsburg, 2 miles 49 chains (4.2 kilometres).^[1]
• 21 September – Transvaal – Tuinplaas to Marble Hall, 36 miles 36 chains (58.7 kilometres).^[1]
• 15 October – Cape – Kleinstraat to Matroosberg, 8 miles 48 chains (13.8 kilometres).^[1]

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