1906 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1906 in South Africa.

Incumbents

Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
Governor of the Colony of Natal: Henry Edward McCallum.
Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne.
Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Charles John Smythe (until 28 November), Frederick Robert Moor (starting 28 November).

;February

11 – Two British £1-per-head tax collectors are killed near Richmond, sparking the Bambatha Rebellion led by Chief Bambatha kaMancinza, leader of the clan of the Zulu people.

;May

2 – Lord Alfred Milner, British colonial secretary and the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, returns to Britain.
6 – British troops kill over 60 Zulu warriors during a punitive expedition near Durban.
A statue of Paul Kruger is unveiled in Church Square, Pretoria

;June

The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

;Unknown date

6 January – Walter Battiss, artist, is born in Somerset East (d. 1982)
5 March – Siegfried Mynhardt, actor, is born in Johannesburg. (d. 1996)
11 June – N.P. van Wyk Louw, poet, dramatist and essayist, is born in Sutherland, Cape Colony. (d. 1970)
30 October – Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, is born near Tsolo in the Cape Colony.
13 December – Laurens van der Post, author, farmer, war hero, political adviser, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist, is born in Philippolis. (d. 1996)

Transvaal – Nancefield to Pimville, .
22 January – Cape Central – Riversdale to Voorbaai, .
6 April – Transvaal – Orkney to Fourteen Streams, .
An experimental 10th Class 4-8-0| Mastodon locomotive for the Cape Eastern System. In 1912 it will be designated Class Experimental 6 on the SAR.

;Natal

The Natal Government Railways (NGR) modifies six of its Class B locomotives to a wheel arrangement, the first Mountain type tender locomotive in the world. In 1912 it will be designated Class 1B on the South African Railways (SAR).