Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0011547Revised

1 February 1935

SAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA)

Updated
4 Dec 2019
SAA

South African Airways

A year after its establshment, South African Airways (SAA), took over South-West African Airways (SWAA), which had since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail service between Windhoek and Kimberley. The weekly services were not affected by these new developments, but continued with F13's. Schedules were also compiled to link up with Johannesburg to Cape Town services at Kimberley.

How we know this

  1. 01Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 613.
  2. 02seatmaestro, History of South African Airways, from ←SEAT→MAESTRO, [online], Available at www.seatmaestro.com [Accessed: 16 January 2014]

Last updated · 4 Dec 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). SAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA). South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011547

South African History Online (2011) 'SAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA)', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011547 (Accessed: 16 October 2026).

South African History Online, SAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA) [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011547, (accessed 16 October 2026).

"SAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA)." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011547. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "SAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA)." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011547.

Also on 1 February

  1. 1889Harold Cressy is born in Rorke’s Drift
  2. 1920The South African Air Force is established
  3. 1963The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
  4. 1973South Africa Grants independence to Venda and Gazankulu homelands
  5. 1982The official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
  6. 1991President F.W. de Klerk promises repeal of apartheid laws
  7. 1994President F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
  8. 1997The Choice of Termination Act is enacted by the Parliament of South Africa

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →