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 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

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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