1926 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1926 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: James Rose Innes. Events

March
 13 – The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town. October
 10 – The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened. 10 – The Sabie Game Reserve is renamed to Kruger National Park. Births
 23 May – Joe Slovo, politician, in Obeliai, Lithuania. (d.1995)
 11 September; Gerrit Viljoen, government minister. (d. 2009)
 15 October – Rexon Mathebula, artist, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. 24 December – Ronald Draper, cricketer

Deaths

Railways

Railway lines opened
 18 January – Transvaal – Villiers, Free State to Grootvlei, . 7 June – Free State – Harrismith to Warden, . 18 August – Cape – Upington to Kakamas (Narrow gauge), . 1 September – Cape – Addo to Sunland, . 15 September – Natal – Mtubatuba to Candover, . 19 November – Cape – Katberg to Seymour (Narrow gauge), . 22 November – Transvaal – Citrus to Plaston, . 8 December – Cape – Klawer to Landplaas, . Locomotives
Three Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
 The first twenty-three Class 15CA 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives. Four Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2 Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives. To address a shortage of suitable shunting locomotives, the first of twenty-one ex Natal Government Railways Class D1  tank locomotives are rebuilt to Class 17 4-8-0 tank-and-tender locomotives. References

 
South Africa
Years of the 20th century in South Africa