Events

• Cape Town
  Cape Town
  Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
  
   starts reclaiming 480 acres (1.9 km²) of land on the foreshore
• 1 February - The South African Airways
  South African Airways
  South African Airways is the national flag carrier and largest airline of South Africa, with headquarters in Airways Park on the grounds of OR Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. The airline flies to 36 destinations worldwide from its hub at OR Tambo International...
  
  , takes over the South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail service between Windhoek
  Windhoek
  Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...
  
   and Kimberley
  Kimberley, Northern Cape
  Kimberley is a city in South Africa, and the capital of the Northern Cape. It is located near the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. The town has considerable historical significance due its diamond mining past and siege during the Second Boer War...
  
  
• 2 July - The South African cricket team
  South African cricket team
  The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status...
  
   wins its first Test cricket
  Test cricket
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
  
   match at Lord's Cricket Ground
  Lord's Cricket Ground
  Lord's Cricket Ground is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board , the European Cricket Council and, until August 2005, the...
  
   against the English cricket team
  English cricket team
  The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end...
  
  

Births

• Andrew Motjuoadi, artist
  Artist
  An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
  
  , is born
• 5 March - Durant Sihlali, artist, is born in Germiston
  Germiston, Gauteng
  Germiston is a city in the East Rand of Gauteng in South Africa. Germiston is now the seat of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality which includes much of the East Rand, and is also considered part of Greater Johannesburg.-History:...
  
  
• 22 April - Sathyandranath Ragunanan Maharaj
  Mac Maharaj
  Sathyandranath Ragunanan "Mac" Maharaj is a South African politician affiliated to the African National Congress, academic and businessman of Indian origin....
  
  , a political activist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
• 29 May - André Phillipus Brink
  André Brink
  André Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town....
  
  , author, is born in Vrede
  Vrede
  Vrede a is town in the Free State province of South Africa that is the agricultural hub of a 100 km² region. Maize, wheat, mutton, wool, beef, dairy products and poultry are farmed in the region. The town was established here after a dispute arose regarding as to where to set up the town in...
  
  , Orange Free State
  Orange Free State
  The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province...
  
  
• 29 April - Tom van Vollenhoven
  Tom van Vollenhoven
  Tom van Vollenhoven is a South African former rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 60s....
  
  , rugby footballer.

Deaths

• 28 March - Tielman Roos
  Tielman Roos
  Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos was a right wing South African politician and sometime Cabinet minister.-Labour politics:...
  
  , a politician and former Minister of Justice, dies at the age of 56 after a long struggle against ill health