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The following lists events that happened during 1898 in South Africa.

Incumbents

  • Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Alfred Milner.
  • Governor of the Colony of Natal: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
  • State President of the Orange Free State: Martinus Theunis Steyn.
  • State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger.
  • Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: John Gordon Sprigg.
  • Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Henry Binns.

Events

;March

  • 26 &ndash; The Sabie Game Reserve, renamed to Kruger National Park in 1926, is proclaimed in the Official Gazette of the South African Republic, the first officially designated game reserve.

;Unknown date

  • Benjamin Jennings Caddy, militant trade unionist, immigrates to South Africa from Australia at the age of 17.

Births

  • 6 June &ndash; Jim Fouché, second State President of South Africa, in Wepener, Orange Free State. (died 1980)

Deaths

  • - 26 March William Guybon Atherstone, medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, (born 1814)

Railways

Railway lines opened

thumb|[[CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1898|CGR 3rd Class Wynberg Tender]]

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

thumb|[[South African Class 6E 4-6-0|OVGS Class 6L-3]]

thumb|[[South African Class D 2-6-4T|PPR 55 Tonner]]

  • Cape Midland &ndash; Bamboo Junction to Cape Collieries, .
  • 3 March &ndash; Cape Midland &ndash; Middelburg to Graaff-Reinet, .
  • 13 June &ndash; Natal &ndash; Clairwood to Wests in Durban, .<!-- 15 March 1893 according to
  • A fourth batch of thirty-three 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 6D on the South African Railways (SAR).