May
South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train pilots for the South African Aviation Corps.
June
19 – The Natives Land Act is passed, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.
November
6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
Unknown date
The City of Greater Cape Town is formed by the union of Central Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont and Kalk Bay.
9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist, is born at Botshabelo mission, near Middelburg, Transvaal.
12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard.
30 April – Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Bethal at the age of 83.
5 March – Cape – Vredenburg to Saldanha (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 65 chains (15.8 kilometres).
15 May – Free State – Arlington to Senekal, 27 miles 30 chains (44.1 kilometres).
15 July – Cape – Butterworth to Idutywa, 26 miles 74 chains (43.3 kilometres).
6 August – Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 miles 30 chains (73.0 kilometres).
3 November – Cape – Graafwater to Kleipan, 22 miles 67 chains (36.8 kilometres).
3 November – Free State – Reitz to Marsala, 28 miles 69 chains (46.4 kilometres).
10 November – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Sabie, 55 miles 36 chains (89.2 kilometres).
1 December – Natal – Greytown to Ahrens, 19 miles 70 chains (32.0 kilometres).
5 December – Transvaal – Bandelierkop to Lilliput, 83 miles 33 chains (134.2 kilometres).
15 December – Natal – Tendeka to Piet Retief (Transvaal), 76 miles 35 chains (123.0 kilometres).
Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
The first of ten Class 4A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.
The first of 45 Class 14 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.
The New Cape Central Railway places three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives in service.
11 January – The South African Springboks beat the French Les Tricolores 38-5 in Bordeaux, France.
