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

The following lists events that happened during1933 in South Africa.

• Monarch: KingGeorge V.
• Governor-General andHigh Commissioner for Southern Africa:The Earl of Clarendon.
• Prime Minister:James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
• Chief Justice:John Wessels.

May

• 29 – The first consignment of 10,000AfrikaansBibles arrives atCape Town fromLondon on theUnion-Castle Line's Carnarvon Castle.

• 10 March –Allister Sparks, writer, journalist, and political commentator (d. 2016)
• 13 March – Solomon Sedibane, sculptor, in Sekhukhuneland inTransvaal.
• 29 March – Stanley Mokgoba, president of thePan Africanist Congress, inPietersburg.
• 11 April –Denis Goldberg,anti-apartheid movement activist, accused No. 3 in theRivonia Trial (d. 2020)
• 28 October –Constand Viljoen, South African military commander, politician & co-founded theAfrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front)
• 15 December –Donald Woods, journalist andanti-apartheid activist (d. 2001).

• 13 March –Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory. (b. 1861)

• 8 July – The firstrugby uniontest match is played between theWallabies of Australia and theSpringboks of South Africa at Newlands.

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