1932 in South Africa

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	1932 in South Africa
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Timeline of South African history

Events

• 21 September - A new embellished version of the coat of arms of South Africa is approved

Births

• 22 March - Kgadime Oliver Matsepe, novelist and poet, is born in Magagamatala near Groblersdal
• 27 April - Roelof Frederik Botha, a politician, is born in Rustenburg
• 11 June - Athol Fugard, author and dramatist, is born in Middelburg
• 12 June - Mimi Coertse, opera soprano born in Durban
• 12 July - Sheena Duncan, Member: Anglican Church’s Challenge Group; Member: Black Sash movement, is born in Johannesburg

Deaths

• 19 June - Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, and writer, dies in Kimberley at the age of 55
• 15 July - Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, playwright, poet, journalist and politician, dies in Oudtshoorn at the age of 58
• 30 December - Daisy de Melker (46), is hanged for the murder of her 20-year old son Rhodes Cole, who died on 5 March 1932 of arsenic poisoning.