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The following lists events that happened during 1870 in South Africa.

Incumbents

  • Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:
  • Sir Philip Wodehouse (until 19 May).
  • Charles Craufurd Hay (acting from 20 May to 30 December).
  • Sir Henry Barkly (from 31 December).
  • Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Robert William Keate.
  • State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.
  • State President of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.

Events

;May

  • 20 &ndash; Charles Craufurd Hay becomes acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.

;July

  • 30 &ndash; The Klipdrift Republic is proclaimed by a group of diamond miners with Stafford Parker as their president.

;December

  • 31 &ndash; Sir Henry Barkly is appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.

;Date unknown

  • The Alfred Basin in Table Bay Harbour, named after Prince Alfred, is completed.

Births

  • 24 May &ndash; Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman. (d. 1950)

Deaths

  • 11 March &ndash; Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho. (b. c. 1786)

Railways

Locomotives

  • A second locomotive is at work on excavation and breakwater construction in Table Bay Harbour, a 0-4-0 saddle-tank engine believed to have been built by Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works and delivered to the Cape at some time between 1863 and 1870.

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