1936 in South Africa

	1936 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Events

February

• Trolley buses (trackless trams) begin to operate in Cape Town.

April

• 7 – The Representation of Natives Act no 16 of 1936 is passed, the first of a series of laws to diminish the voting rights of non-Whites in the Cape Province.

July

• 2 – Die Vaderland, the first Afrikaans daily newspaper in Transvaal, starts publishing in Johannesburg.

Unknown date

• The Castle in Cape Town is proclaimed a National Monument.

Births

• 21 June – Lionel Davis, artist, is born in Cape Town.
• 22 October – Neville Alexander is born in Cradock, Eastern Cape. (d. 2012)

Deaths

• 2 July – Lionel Phillips, mining magnate, chairman of the South African Chamber of Mines and politician, dies at the age of 80 at Vergelegen, Somerset West.

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 1 May – Natal – Point to Congella, 1 mile 52 chains (2.7 kilometres).
• 15 June – Cape – Palingpan to Manganore, 3 miles 48 chains (5.8 kilometres).
• 30 June – Cape – Postmasburg to Lohatla, 23 miles 20 chains (37.4 kilometres).

Locomotives

• The South African Railways builds the first two of 24 Class ES centre-cab electric shunting locomotives in its Pietermaritzburg shops, based on the Class 1E mainline electric locomotive.