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Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during1934 in South Africa.

• Monarch: KingGeorge V
• Governor-General:The Earl of Clarendon
• Prime Minister:James Barry Munnik Hertzog
• Chief Justice:John Wessels

February

• 1 –South African Airways is inaugurated and takes over the passenger and goods air services fromUnion Airways.

June

• TheNational Party andSouth African Party unite to form theUnited Party.

July

• 9 – TheHitler Youth movement is prohibited inSouth West Africa.

December

• 3 – The Status of the Union Act and the Royal Executive Functions and Seals Act come into operation: i.a. they makeParliament the sovereign legislative power in the Union; adopt parts of theStatute of Westminster; vest the executive government in the king, acting on the advice of the South African ministers only; and institute the Royal Great Seal of the Union and the Royal Signet of the Union.^[1]

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• The Slums Act is passed, giving municipalities and the government the authority to acquire slum properties.

• 5 January –Phil Ramone, recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, co-founder ofA & R Recording, Inc. (d. 2013)
• 14 January –Laurie Ackermann,Constitutional Court of South Africajudge
• 8 May –Sibusiso Bengu,politician
• 16 May –Ronnie Govender, playwright and director (d, 2021)
• 26 May –Dullah Omar,lawyer and politician. (d. 2004)
• 28 June –Peter Beighton, English-borngeneticist (d. 2017)
• 5 August –Zakes Mokae, actor (d. 2009)
• 8 August –Sam Nzima, photographer who took what became the well known image ofHector Pieterson for theSoweto uprising (d. 2018)
• 3 October –Harold Henning, golfer. (d. 2004)
• 8 October –Kader Asmal,activist, politician and professor of human rights (d. 2011)
• 9 October –Abdullah Ibrahim, pianist and composer
• 20 October –Mary Peach, film and television actress
• 8 November –Edward Bhengu, activist and founding member of thePan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 2010)
• 9 November –Ronald Harwood, playwright (d. 2020)

• 27 March –Francis William Reitz, president of theOrange Free State. (b. 1844)
• 28 July –Louis Tancred, cricketer. (b. 1876)

• 26 February – Transvaal –Northam toThabazimbi, 28 miles 72 chains (46.5 kilometres).^[2]
• 29 July – Transvaal –Germiston toElsburg, 2 miles 49 chains (4.2 kilometres).^[2]
• 21 September – Transvaal – Tuinplaas toMarble Hall, 36 miles 36 chains (58.7 kilometres).^[2]
• 15 October – Cape – Kleinstraat toMatroosberg, 8 miles 48 chains (13.8 kilometres).^[2]

• 1934 in South Africa

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