1933 in South Africa

← 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 Claredon.
• 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

• 13 March – Solomon Sedibane, sculptor, in Sekhukhuneland in Transvaal.
• 29 March – Stanley Mokgoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, in Pietersburg.

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.

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