1893 in South Africa
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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.
- JulyâSeptember : 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 â The South African and International Exhibition closes
- May
- 23 â Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.
- Unknown date
- The first Crocidolite (Blue Asbestos) mine is opened near Prieska.
Births
- 16 May â Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist. (d. 1980)
Deaths
- 30 April â Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician, dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81.
- 23 June â Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman. (b. 1817)
- 9 July â George Christopher Cato, the first mayor of Durban, dies at the age of 79.
Railways
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Railway lines opened
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.[2][3]
- Transvaal
- The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner 0-6-4 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.[2][4]