1929 in South Africa

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14 – The National Party under J.B.M. Hertzog wins the South African general election with an outright majority for a second consecutive term.

24 – Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways on 1 February 1934.^[1]

23 May – Joe Modise, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2001)
2 July – Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete.^[2]
21 August – Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2017)
25 December – Arthur Goldreich, South African-Israeli abstract painter and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2011)

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

3 April – Cape – Hermon to Porterville, 36 miles 10 chains (58.1 kilometres).^[3]
10 April – Cape – Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, 6 miles 25 chains (10.2 kilometres).^[3]
16 April – Free State – Wesselsbron to Bultfontein, 35 miles 45 chains (57.2 kilometres).^[3]
31 July – Free State – Arlington to Lindley, 12 miles 26 chains (19.8 kilometres).^[3]
12 August – Transvaal – Boshoek to Middelwit, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 kilometres).^[3]
31 August – Transvaal – Messina to Beitbridge, 10 miles 30 chains (16.7 kilometres).^[3]
14 November – Transvaal – Derwent to Stoffberg, 37 miles 73 chains (61.0 kilometres).^[3]
1 December – South West Africa – Seeis to Witvlei, 66 miles 41 chains (107.0 kilometres).^[3]

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.^[4]^[5]
Thirty-six Class 19A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.^[5]^[6]^[7]
Five Class GDA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.^[4]^[5]^[8]
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.^[4]^[7]^[9]
A single self-contained steam Clayton Railmotor for low-volume passenger service.^[10]
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.^[5]

^ ^a ^b SAA Museum Society: South African Airways, A Brief History (Accessed on 8 March 2017)
^ SR/Olympic Sports - Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger (Accessed on 8 March 2017)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
^ ^a ^b ^c Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 58–65. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 70, 80, 90–91, 116. ISBN 0869772112.
^ South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2’0” & 3’6” Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended
^ ^a ^b Durrant, AE (1989). Twilight of South African Steam (1st ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles. pp. 33, 99. ISBN 0715386387.
^ Hamilton, Gavin N., The Garratt Locomotive - Garratt Locomotives from Other Builders, retrieved 10 November 2012
^ Hamilton, Gavin N., The Garratt Locomotive - Garratt Locomotives produced by Beyer, Peacock, retrieved 10 November 2012
^ Clayton Steam Rail Coach - From the Dave Rhind Collection, Railway History Group of South Africa, Pinelands, Cape Town.

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