1924 in South Africa

Incumbents

• Monarch: King George V.
• Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:
• * Prince Arthur of Connaught.
• * The Earl of Athlone.
• Prime Minister:
• * Jan Smuts.
• * J.B.M. Hertzog.
• Chief Justice: James Rose Innes.

  Events

• 21 - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is appointed the 4th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.

• 5 - The first one-day flight between Cape Town and Pretoria takes place.

• 30 - J.B.M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa.

• The Taung Child is discovered.

  Births

• 23 February - Allan Cormack, South African-American physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate.
• 14 July - Stephen Fry, Springbok rugby captain.
• 26 July - Elias Motsoaledi, political activist.
• 28 November - Dennis Brutus, poet and anti-apartheid activist.

  Deaths

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 16 April - Free State - Wepener to Zastron,.
• 19 April - Cape - Klipdale to Bredasdorp,.
• 1 May - Transvaal - Balfour North to Grootvlei,.
• 16 June - Cape - Pinelands to Langa,.
• 24 July - Free State - Heilbron to Petrus Steyn,.
• 10 September - Transvaal - Lydenburg to Steelpoort,.
• 19 September - South West Africa - Gobabis Junction in Windhoek to Ondekaremba,.
• 22 September - Transvaal - Naboomspruit to Singlewood,.
• 3 November - Cape - Franklin to Kokstad,.
• 4 November - Cape - Franklin to Matatiele,.
• 14 November - Cape - Oudtshoorn to Calitzdorp,.
• 15 December - Cape - Touws River to Kareevlakte,.
• 15 December - Transvaal - Hercules to Schoemansville,.

  Locomotives

• The first of six Class GC branchline 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt articulated locomotives.
• A single Class ES1 battery-powered shunting locomotive at the construction site of the Colenso power station.