1935 in South Africa

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

The following lists events that happened during 1935 in South Africa.

Incumbents

1 – The South African Airways takes over the South West African Airways which has been providing a weekly airmail service between Windhoek and Kimberley since 1932.

30 January – Albie Sachs, activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
5 February – Johannes Geldenhuys, military commander (d. 2018)
5 March – Durant Sihlali, artist, in Germiston. (d. 2004)
22 April – Mac Maharaj, political activist, in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.
29 April – Tom van Vollenhoven, Springbok rugby player. (d. 2017)
29 May – André P. Brink, Sestiger author, in Vrede. (d. 2015)
23 August – Sol Kerzner, business magnate, founder of Southern Sun Hotel Group, Sun International & Kerzner International (d. 2020)
30 August – Peter Cartwright, actor. (d. 2013)
1 November – Gary Player, professional golfer.
11 November – Esther Mahlangu, artist from the Ndebele nation, bold large-scale contemporary paintings that reference her Ndebele heritage

19 October – Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 miles 68 chains (31.9 kilometres).^[1]

Four new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR), all with rotary cam poppet valve gear:

^ Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 190, ref. no. 200954-13
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 62–63, 67–74. ISBN 0869772112.
^ ^a ^b ^c Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 68–72, 107. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
^ Durrant, AE (1989). Twilight of South African Steam (1st ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles. pp. 3–64. ISBN 0715386387.