The following lists events that happened during 1959 in South Africa.
Incumbents
Events
April
July
August
December
Unknown date
Births
- 1 January – Thulas Nxesi, national minister
- 7 January – Peter Mokaba, member of the South African parliament, deputy minister in the government of Nelson Mandela (d. 2002)
- 14 March – Tertius Bosch, cricketer.
- 16 March – Tito Mboweni, politician.
- 4 April – Kenneth Segal, South African-born Israeli industrial designer and educator
- 7 April – Etsko Schuitema, Afrikaner businessman
- 21 April – Manne Dipico, politician
- 16 September – Dave Richardson (cricketer), cricketer.
- 18 November – Christine Barkhuizen le Roux, writer (d. 2020)
Deaths
Railways
Locomotives
Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways.
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