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The following lists events that happened during 1893 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: Sir John Robinson

Events

;January

  • 10 &ndash; The South African and International Exhibition closes

;May

  • 23 &ndash; Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.

;Unknown date

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

Births

  • 16 May &ndash; Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist. (d. 1980)

Deaths

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

Railways

thumb|[[South African Class 6 4-6-0|CGR 6th Class of 1893]]

thumb|[[South African Class B 0-6-4T|NZASM 46 Tonner, c. 1895]]

Railway lines opened

  • 1 January &ndash; Transvaal &ndash; Germiston to Pretoria, .

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;Transvaal

  • The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner 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.

References