Events

• The Castle in 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...
  
   is proclaimed a National Monument
• February - Trolley buses (trackless trams) begin operation in Cape Town
• 7 April - The Representation of Natives Act no 16 of 1936 is passed, the first of a series of laws to diminish the voting rights of non-Whites in the Cape Province
  Cape Province
  The Province of the Cape of Good Hope was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa...
  
  
• 2 July - Die Vaderland, the first Afrikaans
  Afrikaans
  Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
  
   daily newspaper
  Newspaper
  A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
  
  , starts publishing in Johannesburg
  Johannesburg
  Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  

Deaths

• 2 July - Lionel Phillips
  Lionel Phillips
  Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet was a South African mining magnate and politician.-Early life:Phillips was born in London on 6 August 1855 to a family of lower middle-class merchants, who formed part of a growing group of Jews set to play a major role in the commerce and politics of...
  
  , mining magnate, chairman of the South African Chamber of Mines
  South African Chamber of Mines
  The Chamber of Mines is a South African mining-industry employer organisation. It was founded on 7 December 1887 in Johannesburg. Its members include famous South African mining houses such as Anglo American De Beers, Goldfields and Harmony....
  
   and politician, dies at Vergelegen
  Vergelegen
  Vergelegen is an historic wine estate near Somerset West, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.-Foundation:The estate was settled in 1700 by an early Governor of the Cape, Willem Adriaan van der Stel...
  
  , Somerset West at the age of 80