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The following lists events that happened during 1908 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: Matthew Nathan.
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
- Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
- Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
- Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.
Events
;January
- 30 – Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after having been tried and sentenced to 2 months in prison earlier in the month.
;March
- 4 – The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established.
;October
- 7 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Volksrust, along with fifteen other Indians, for entering Transvaal without registration certificates and is sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labor.
;November
- 16 – Devastating flooding in Port Elizabeth
;Unknown date
- Bosman de Ravelli composes the first Afrikaans art song
Births
- 5 March – Arthur Wegelin, composer.
- 23 April – Bram Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, is born in the Orange River Colony. (d. 1975)
- 2 July – Andries Johannes Bester de Klerk, writer and secretary of the Cape Province, is born in Williston, Cape Colony
- 10 July – Wally Hayward, South African athlete (d. 2006)
Railways
Railway lines opened
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- 4 January – Cape Eastern – West Bank, Buffalo Harbour to Chiselhurst, .
- 6 February – Transvaal – Machadodorp to Breyten, .
- 8 April – Free State – Hamilton to Beaconsfield (Cape), .