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The following lists events that happened during 1894 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: 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

;June

  • 25 &ndash; Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, meets British High Commissioner Sir Henry Loch in Pretoria to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders.

;August

  • 22 &ndash; The Natal Indian Congress is founded by Mahatma Gandhi.

;September

  • Mahatma Gandhi becomes the first Indian to be enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Natal.

;October

  • 1 &ndash; The Owl Club of Cape Town, a dining club, has its first formal meeting.
  • 20 &ndash; The railway line between Lourenço Marques and Pretoria is completed at Balmoral.

;November

  • 18 &ndash; The railway line between Lourenço Marques and Pretoria is opened to traffic.
  • 23 August &ndash; Andries Albertus Pienaar, author under the pen name Sangiro, born in Broederstroom. (d. 1979)
  • 5 October &ndash; Bevil Rudd, South African athlete. (d. 1948)

Railways

Railway lines opened

  • 3 October &ndash; Cape Western &ndash; Vryburg to Mafeking, .
  • 18 November &ndash; Transvaal &ndash; Airlie to Pretoria, .

;Transvaal

  • The Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) places three NZASM 32 Tonner 0-4-2RT| rack tank locomotives in service on the rack section between Waterval Onder and Waterval Boven.

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