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The following lists events that happened during 1913 in South Africa.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: King George V.
  • Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Viscount Gladstone.
  • Prime Minister: Louis Botha.
  • Chief Justice: John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers

Events

;May

  • South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train pilots for the South African Aviation Corps.

;June

  • 19 &ndash; The Natives Land Act is passed, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.

;November

  • 6 &ndash; Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

;Unknown date

  • The City of Greater Cape Town is formed by the union of Central Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont and Kalk Bay.

Births

  • 6 April &ndash; A. P. Mda, co-founder of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 1993)
  • 9 December &ndash; Gerard Sekoto, artist. (d. 1993)

Deaths

  • 12 March &ndash; Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard. (b. 1846)
  • 30 April &ndash; Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. (b. 1830)
  • 16 November &ndash; Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (b. 1850)

Railways

Railway lines opened

thumb|[[South African Class 4A 4-8-2|SAR Class 4A]]

thumb|[[South African Class 7F 4-8-0|NCCR Class 7, SAR Class 7F]]

thumb|[[South African Class 14 4-8-2|SAR Class 14]]

  • 5 March &ndash; Cape &ndash; Vredenburg to Saldanha (Narrow gauge), .
  • 15 May &ndash; Free State &ndash; Arlington to Senekal, .
  • The first of 45 Class 14 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.

Sports

Rugby

  • 11 January &ndash; The South African Springboks beat the French Les Tricolores 38–5 in Bordeaux, France.

References