1893 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1893 in South Africa.

Incumbents Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Henry Brougham Loch. Governor of the Colony of Natal: until July: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell. July–September : Francis Seymour Haden starting 27 September: Walter Hely-Hutchinson. State President of the Orange Free State: Francis William Reitz. State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger. Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Cecil John Rhodes. Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Sir John Robinson

Events January 10 – The South African and International Exhibition closes May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.

Unknown date The first Crocidolite (Blue Asbestos) mine is opened near Prieska.

Births 16 May – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist. (d. 1980)

Deaths 30 April – Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician, dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81. 23 June – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman. (b. 1817) 9 July – George Christopher Cato, the first mayor of Durban, dies at the age of 79.

Railways

Railway lines opened 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, .Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13

30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, .

Locomotives Cape The Cape Government Railways places the first of forty 6th Class 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives in service on its Western and Midland Systems. They will become the Class 6 on the South African Railways in 1912.

Transvaal The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner tank steam locomotives are placed in service by the Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. The survivors will become the Class B on the South African Railways in 1912.

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