1933 in South Africa

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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.

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Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)