1913 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1913 in South Africa.
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Incumbents
- Monarch: King George V.
- Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Viscount Gladstone.[1]
- 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 – The Natives Land Act is passed, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.
- November
- 6 – 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 – A. P. Mda, co-founder of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 1993)
- 9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist. (d. 1993)
Deaths
- 12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard. (b. 1846)
- 30 April – Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. (b. 1830)
- 16 November – Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (b. 1850)
Railways
Railway lines opened
- 5 March – Cape – Vredenburg to Saldanha (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 65 chains (15.8 kilometres).[2]
- 15 May – Free State – Arlington to Senekal, 27 miles 30 chains (44.1 kilometres).[2]
- 15 July – Cape – Butterworth to Idutywa, 26 miles 74 chains (43.3 kilometres).[2]
- 6 August – Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 miles 30 chains (73.0 kilometres).[2]
- 3 November – Cape – Graafwater to Kleipan, 22 miles 67 chains (36.8 kilometres).[2]
- 3 November – Free State – Reitz to Marsala, 28 miles 69 chains (46.4 kilometres).[2]
- 10 November – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Sabie, 55 miles 36 chains (89.2 kilometres).[2]
- 1 December – Natal – Greytown to Ahrens, 19 miles 70 chains (32.0 kilometres).[2]
- 5 December – Transvaal – Bandelierkop to Lilliput, 83 miles 33 chains (134.2 kilometres).[2]
- 15 December – Natal – Tendeka to Piet Retief (Transvaal), 76 miles 35 chains (123.0 kilometres).[2]
Locomotives
- Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
- The New Cape Central Railway places three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives in service.[3][4][5]
Sports
Rugby
- 11 January – The South African Springboks beat the French Les Tricolores 38–5 in Bordeaux, France.
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gollark: Also, it spreads through... breathing, as well as surfaces, so...
gollark: And apparently may have *some* effect in reducing how likely you are to get it.
gollark: Also, the "disaster is inevitable" thing seems... wrong. I think if stuff is handled correctly humanity can weather the problems we currently are and are going to experience and, er, do well. Problem is that there are lots of ways to do things very wrong.
References
- Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
- Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 187, ref. no. 200954-13
- Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 38–39, 46–48, 56–57. ISBN 0869772112.
- Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 78–80. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
- Pattison, R.G. (1997). The Cape Seventh Class Locomotives (1st ed.). Kenilworth, Cape Town: The Railway History Group. pp. 15–16. ISBN 0958400946.
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