← 1934 1933 1932 1935 in South Africa → 1936 1937 1938
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1935 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

February

• 1 – The South African Airways takes over the South West African Airways which has been providing a weekly airmail service between Windhoek and Kimberley since 1932.

Unknown date

• Cape Town begins to reclaim 480 acres (1.9 km²) of land on the Foreshore.

Births

• 30 January – Albie Sachs, activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
• 5 February – Johannes Geldenhuys, military commander (d. 2018)
• 5 March – Durant Sihlali, artist, in Germiston. (d. 2004)
• 22 April – Mac Maharaj, political activist, in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.
• 29 April – Tom van Vollenhoven, Springbok rugby player. (d. 2017)
• 29 May – André P. Brink, Sestiger author, in Vrede. (d. 2015)
• 23 August – Sol Kerzner, business magnate, founder of Southern Sun Hotel Group, Sun International & Kerzner International (d. 2020)
• 30 August – Peter Cartwright, actor. (d. 2013)
• 1 November – Gary Player, professional golfer.
• 11 November – Esther Mahlangu, artist from the Ndebele nation, bold large-scale contemporary paintings that reference her Ndebele heritage

Deaths

• 28 March – Tielman Roos, politician and Minister of Justice. (b. 1879)
• 2 November – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer. (b. 1905)
• 20 May – Nontetha, Xhosa prophet

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 19 October – Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 miles 68 chains (31.9 kilometres).^[1]

Locomotives

Four new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR), all with rotary cam poppet valve gear:

• The first of forty-four Class 15E 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^[2]
• Six Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific type passenger steam locomotives.^[2][3]
• Fifty Class 19C 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^[2][3]
• A single experimental Class 20 2-10-2 Santa Fe type locomotive.^[2][3][4]

Sports

Cricket

• 2 July – The South African cricket team wins its first test cricket match against the English cricket team at Lord's Cricket Ground.