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← 1932 1931 1930 1933 in South Africa → 1934 1935 1936
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1933 in South Africa.

Incumbents

• Monarch: King George V.
• Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Clarendon.
• Prime Minister: James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
• Chief Justice: John Wessels.

Events

May

• 29 – The first consignment of 10,000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives at Cape Town from London on the Union-Castle Line's Carnarvon Castle.

Births

• 10 March – Allister Sparks, writer, journalist, and political commentator (d. 2016)
• 13 March – Solomon Sedibane, sculptor, in Sekhukhuneland in Transvaal.
• 29 March – Stanley Mokgoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, in Pietersburg.
• 11 April – Denis Goldberg, anti-apartheid movement activist, accused No. 3 in the Rivonia Trial (d. 2020)
• 28 October – Constand Viljoen, South African military commander, politician & co-founded the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front)
• 15 December – Donald Woods, journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001).

Deaths

• 13 March – Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory. (b. 1861)

Sports

• 8 July – The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands.

References

v t e Years in South Africa (1901–present)
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

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