1894 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1894 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: 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: .

Events

June

• 25 – Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, meets British High Commissioner Sir Henry Loch in Pretoria to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders.

August

• 22 – The Natal Indian Congress is founded by Mahatma Gandhi.

September

• Mahatma Gandhi becomes the first Indian to be enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Natal.

October

• 1 – The Owl Club of Cape Town, a dining club, has its first formal meeting.
• 20 – The railway line between Lourenço Marques and Pretoria is completed at Balmoral.

November

• 18 – The railway line between Lourenço Marques and Pretoria is opened to traffic.

Unknown date

• The Glen Grey Act is passed in the Cape of Good Hope to control African labour and land.

Births

• 12 March – Willem Lambertus van Warmelo, compiler of Afrikaanse Liedjies, born in the Netherlands. (d. 1976)
• 20 March – Jan Hofmeyr, Prime Minister of South Africa. (d. 1948)
• 1 May – Elizabeth Johanna Bosman, author under the pen name Marie Linde (d. 1963)
• 23 August – Andries Albertus Pienaar, author under the pen name Sangiro, born in Broederstroom. (d. 1979)
• 5 October – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete. (d. 1948)

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 3 October – Cape Western – Vryburg to Mafeking, .
• 18 November – Transvaal – Airlie to Pretoria, .

Locomotives

Cape

• The Port Elizabeth Harbour Board places the first of eight 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives in shunting service at the Port Elizabeth Harbour.

Transvaal

• The Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) places three rack tank locomotives in service on the rack section between Waterval Onder and Waterval Boven.

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