title: 1929 in South Africa
text: # 1929 in South Africa
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1929 in South Africa.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: King George V.
  * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Athlone.
  * Prime Minister: James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
  * Chief Justice: William Henry Solomon then Jacob de Villiers.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### June
  
  * 14 – The National Party under J.B.M. Hertzog wins the South African general election with an outright majority for a second consecutive term.
  
  ### July
  
  * 24 – Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways on 1 February 1934.
  
  ### August
  
  * 26 – Union Airways commences operations.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 23 May – Joe Modise, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2001)
  * 2 July – Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete.
  * 21 August – Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2017)
  * 25 December – Arthur Goldreich, South African-Israeli abstract painter and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2011)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 20 March – Ferdinand Foch, the First World War commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in France after whom Fochville was named. (b. 1851)
  * 30 October – Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, mining magnate and Randlord
  
  ## Railways
  
  ### Railway lines opened
  
  * 3 April – Cape – Hermon to Porterville, 36 miles 10 chains (58.1 kilometres).
  * 10 April – Cape – Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, 6 miles 25 chains (10.2 kilometres).
  * 16 April – Free State – Wesselsbron to Bultfontein, 35 miles 45 chains (57.2 kilometres).
  * 31 July – Free State – Arlington to Lindley, 12 miles 26 chains (19.8 kilometres).
  * 12 August – Transvaal – Boshoek to Middelwit, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 kilometres).
  * 31 August – Transvaal – Messina to Beitbridge, 10 miles 30 chains (16.7 kilometres).
  * 14 November – Transvaal – Derwent to Stoffberg, 37 miles 73 chains (61.0 kilometres).
  * 1 December – South West Africa – Seeis to Witvlei, 66 miles 41 chains (107.0 kilometres).
  
  ### Locomotives
  
  Six new steam locomotive types, four Cape gauge and one narrow gauge, enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
  
  * Fourteen purpose-built Class S 0-8-0 shunting steam locomotives.
  * Thirty-six Class 19A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.
  * Five Class GDA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.
  * The first two of eight Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type Garratt locomotives on the Durban-Cato Ridge section in Natal.
  * A single self-contained steam Clayton Railmotor for low-volume passenger service.
  * A single narrow gauge 0-6-0 tank locomotive, built to the same design as the German South West African Class Hc of 1907, on the Otavi Railway in South West Africa.
  