1933 in South Africa

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← 1932 1931 1930 1933 in South Africa → 1934 1935 1936
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1933 in South Africa.

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

May

• 29 – The first consignment of 10,000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives at Cape Town from London on the Union-Castle Line's Carnarvon Castle.

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

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

• 8 July – The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands.