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The following lists events that happened during 1874 in South Africa.

Incumbents

  • Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir Henry Barkly.
  • Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Sir Benjamin Pine.
  • State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.
  • State President of the South African Republic: Thomas François Burgers.
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand West: Sir Richard Southey.
  • Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Sir John Molteno.

Events

;May

  • 27 &ndash; The first group of Dorsland Trekkers departs from Pretoria to settle in Angola, led by Gert Alberts.

;Unknown date

  • Work begins on the Cape Parliamentary buildings (the current South African houses of Parliament).
  • The Cape Government passes legislation to begin government funding of education and colleges.
  • The South African Teachers' Association is established in the Cape.
  • The railway line from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage is partially opened.
  • Work is begun on the Verlatenkloof pass, connecting the town of Sutherland with the southern Cape.
  • The Molteno Government of the Cape passes a parliamentary act to redraw the provincial boundaries of the Cape Colony, from two provinces (Eastern and Western Cape) to seven.
  • The Molteno Regulations establish the South African public library system.
  • The Burgerspond, the South African Republic's first coin, is introduced.

Births

  • 4 July? &ndash; Moloko Temo, South African supercentenarian. (d. 2009)

Railways

thumb|[[Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0T|Table Bay Harbour Board 0-4-0T]]

Locomotives

  • A single 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotive is placed in railway construction service on the Midland System of the Cape Government Railways.
  • A third locomotive enters service on breakwater construction work at Table Bay Harbour, a Brunel gauge side-tank engine built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co.

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