South Africa leaves the gold standard

28 December 1933 · national · Cape Colony / South Africa

A year after Britain. The devaluation lifts export prices and ends the worst of the Depression for farmers - and the mid-1930s in this district are a flurry of surveys and transfers, including the three farms that go into Anna Margaretha's name in 1937. [Added 1 Aug 2026 as timeline context: general history, no source row, and it is here because it bears on this district rather than because it is famous.]