← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in South Africa → 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1932 in South Africa.

Incumbents

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

Events

September

• 21 – A new embellished version of the coat of arms of South Africa is approved.

Births

• 18 January – Peter Magubane, photographer
• 4 March – Miriam Makeba, South African singer. (d. 2008)^[1]
• 13 April – Barney Simon, writer, playwright and director (d. 1995)
• 25 April – Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa
• 27 April – Pik Botha, politician. (d. 2018)^[2]
• 12 May – Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, lawyer. (d. 2017)^[3]
• 11 June – Athol Fugard, author and dramatist.
• 12 June
  • Patrick Mynhardt, actor.
  • Mimi Coertse, opera soprano.
• 18 June – Louis Luyt, business tycoon and politician, and one-time rugby administrator (d. 2013)
• 26 June – Harry Bromfield, cricketer.
• 12 July – Sheena Duncan, member of the Anglican Church's Challenge Group and Black Sash movement. (d. 2010)
• 29 November – Johann Kriegler, Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Deaths

• 19 June – Sol Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. (b. 1876)
• 15 July – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, playwright, poet, journalist and politician. (b. 1873)
• 30 December – Daisy de Melker is hanged for the murder of her 20-year-old son Rhodes Cowle. (b. 1886)^[4]

Railways

Sports

• 1932 Currie Cup^[5]