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