1935 in South Africa

Incumbents

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

  Events

• 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.

• Cape Town begins to reclaim 480 acres 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
• 5 March - Durant Sihlali, artist, in Germiston.
• 22 April - Mac Maharaj, political activist, in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.
• 29 April - Tom van Vollenhoven, Springbok rugby player.
• 29 May - André P. Brink, Sestiger author, in Vrede.
• 23 August - Sol Kerzner, business magnate, founder of Southern Sun Hotel Group, Sun International & Kerzner International
• 30 August - Peter Cartwright, actor
• 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.
• 2 November - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer.
• 20 May - Nontetha, Xhosa prophet

  Railways

Railway lines opened

• 19 October - Transvaal - Springs to Kaydale,.

  Locomotives

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

  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.