1893 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1893 in South Africa.

← 1892 1891 1890 1893 in South Africa → 1894 1895 1896
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

Incumbents

• Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Henry Brougham Loch.
• Governor of the Colony of Natal:
  • until July: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
  • July–September : Francis Seymour Haden
  • starting 27 September: Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
• State President of the Orange Free State: Francis William Reitz.
• State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger.
• Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Cecil John Rhodes.
• Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal:

Events

January

• 10 – The South African and International Exhibition closes

May

• 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.

Unknown date

• The first Crocidolite (Blue Asbestos) mine is opened near Prieska.

Births

• 16 May – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist. (d. 1980)

Deaths

• 30 April – Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician, dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81.
• 23 June – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman. (b. 1817)
• 9 July – George Christopher Cato, the first mayor of Durban, dies at the age of 79.

Railways

CGR 6th Class of 1893

NZASM 46 Tonner, c. 1895

Railway lines opened

• 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, 35 miles (56.3 kilometres).[1]
• 30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, 42 miles (67.6 kilometres).[1]

Locomotives

Cape

• The Cape Government Railways places the first of forty 6th Class 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives in service on its Western and Midland Systems. They will become the Class 6 on the South African Railways in 1912.[2][3]

Transvaal

• The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner 0-6-4 tank steam locomotives are placed in service by the Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. The survivors will become the Class B on the South African Railways in 1912.[2][4]

References

1. Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13
2. Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 44–45, 57, 113–117, 126. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
3. Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 41–44. ISBN 0869772112.
4. Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.