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The following lists events that happened during 1926 in South Africa.

Incumbents

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

Events

;March

  • 13 &ndash; The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.

;October

  • 8 &ndash; 124 coal miners die due to a methane explosion in the Durban Navigation Colliery disaster
  • 10 &ndash; The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened.
  • 10 &ndash; The Sabie Game Reserve is renamed to Kruger National Park.

Births

  • 23 May &ndash; Joe Slovo, politician in Obeliai, Lithuania (d. 1995)
  • 11 September; Gerrit Viljoen, government minister (d. 2009)
  • 24 December &ndash; Ronald Draper, cricketer (d. 2025)

Railways

thumb|[[South African Class 15CA 4-8-2|Class 15CA]]

thumb|[[South African Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2|Class FD]]

thumb|[[South African Class 17 4-8-0TT|Class 17]]

Railway lines opened

  • 18 January &ndash; Transvaal &ndash; Villiers, Free State to Grootvlei, .
  • 7 June &ndash; Free State &ndash; Harrismith to Warden, .
  • Four Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2 Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.

References