1929 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1929 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: William Henry Solomon then Jacob de Villiers.

;June

14 – The National Party under J.B.M. Hertzog wins the South African general election with an outright majority for a second consecutive term.

;July

24 – Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways on 1 February 1934.

;August

26 – Union Airways commences operations.
21 August – Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2017)
19 October – Lewis Wolpert, South African-born British biologist (d. 2021)
25 December – Arthur Goldreich, South African-Israeli abstract painter and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2011)

20 March – Ferdinand Foch, the First World War commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in France after whom Fochville was named. (b. 1851)
30 October – Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, mining magnate and Randlord

thumb|[[South African Class S 0-8-0|Class S]]

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

thumb|[[South African Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4|Class GL]]

thumb|[[South African Clayton Railmotor|Clayton Railmotor]]

3 April – Cape – Hermon to Porterville, .
10 April – Cape – Ceres to Prince Alfred Hamlet, .
Thirty-six Class 19A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.
The first two of eight Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type Garratt locomotives on the Durban-Cato Ridge section in Natal.
A single self-contained steam Clayton Railmotor for low-volume passenger service.
A single narrow gauge 0-6-0 tank locomotive, built to the same design as the German South West African Class Hc of 1907, on the Otavi Railway in South West Africa.