1909 in South Africa
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Incumbents
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
- Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan.
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
- Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
- Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
- Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.
Events
- February
- 25 â Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.
- June
- 15 â Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground and form the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC).
- Mahatma Gandhi embarks in Cape Town for Southampton, England.
- November
- 30 â Mahatma Gandhi and the Transvaal Indian Deputation arrive back in Cape Town.
- December
- 28 â The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made by French aviator Albert Kimmerling by taking off from the Nahoon Racecourse at East London in a Voisin 1907 biplane.[1]
- Unknown date
- South Africa becomes the first non-European country to join FIFA.
Births
- 19 March â Louis Hayward, South African-born actor. (d. 1985)
- 5 August â Oscar Mpetha, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 1994)
- 5 September â Yusuf Dadoo, doctor and politician. (d. 1983)
- 5 December â Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player. (d. 2016)
Deaths
- 13 April â Sir Donald Currie GCMG, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket. (b. 1825)
Railways
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Railway lines opened
- 4 February â Natal â Creighton to Riverside (Cape), 12 miles 3 chains (19.4 kilometres).[2]
- 1 April â Natal â Vryheid East to Hlobane, 17 miles (27.4 kilometres).[2]
- 18 May â Cape Midland â Barkly Bridge to Alexandria, 54 miles 20 chains (87.3 kilometres).[3]
Locomotives
- Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Natal Government Railways (NGR):
- The first five of thirty 4-8-2 tender locomotives, the world's first true Mountain type locomotive. In 1912 it will be designated Class B on the South African Railways (SAR).[4][5][6]
- A single 2-6-6-0 Mallet articulated compound steam locomotive, the first Mallet type to enter service in South Africa. In 1912 it will be designated Class MA on the SAR.[4][6]
- The NGR begins to modify some of its Class C 4-10-2T Reid Tenwheeler locomotives to a 4-8-2T wheel arrangement to make them suitable for yard work without the risk of derailing as a result of the long ten-coupled wheelbase. In 1912 these will be designated Class H2 on the SAR.[6][7]