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1934 in South Africa

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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 Wepener Hugo Ackermann, Constitutional Court of South Africa judge, is born in Pretoria.
  • 8 May – Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, politician.
  • 26 May – Dullah Omar, lawyer and politician, is born in Cape Town.
  • 8 October – Kader Asmal, activist, politician and professor of human rights.
  • Peter Beighton, geneticist, is born in England.
  • Deaths

  • 27 March - Francis William Reitz (89), South African lawyer, politician, and statesman, president of the Orange Free State died in Cape Town
  • Railway lines opened

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

    1934 in South Africa Wikipedia