The following lists events that happened during 1870 in South Africa.
Incumbents Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir Philip Wodehouse (until 19 May). Charles Craufurd Hay (acting from 20 May to 30 December). Sir Henry Barkly (from 31 December). Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Robert William Keate. State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, Orange Free State: Heads of State: 1854-1902 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) State President of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, South African Republic (Transvaal): Heads of State: 1857-1877 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
Events May 20 – Charles Craufurd Hay becomes acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
July 30 – The Klipdrift Republic is proclaimed by a group of diamond miners with Stafford Parker as their president.
December 31 – Sir Henry Barkly is appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
Date unknown The Alfred Basin in Table Bay Harbour, named after Prince Alfred, is completed.South Africa’s Yesterdays, The Reader’s Digest Association South Africa (Pty.) Limited, 1981, (Editor Peter Joyce), p171,
Births 24 May – Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman. (d. 1950)
Deaths 11 March – Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho. (b. c. 1786)
Railways
Locomotives A second locomotive is at work on excavation and breakwater construction in Table Bay Harbour, a 0-4-0 saddle-tank engine believed to have been built by Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works and delivered to the Cape at some time between 1863 and 1870.The Cape Argus of 19 July 1870.Dating the opening of Hughes Works
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