1909 in South Africa

none April 2020 December 2013 1909 The following lists events that happened during 1909 in South Africa. 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 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment. June 15 – 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 – Mahatma Gandhi and the Transvaal Indian Deputation arrive back in Cape Town. December 28 – 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.South African Power Flying Association - 1910 to 1920 - Early Flying in South Africa https://web.archive.org/web/20150820003506/http://www.sapfa.org.za/history/1910-1920-early-flying-south-africa 20 August 2015 (Accessed on 26 November 2016) Unknown date South Africa becomes the first non-European country to join FIFA. Births 19 March – Louis Hayward, South African-born actor. (d. 1985) 5 August – Oscar Mpetha, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 1994) 5 September – Yusuf Dadoo, doctor and politician. (d. 1983) 5 December – Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player. (d. 2016) Deaths 13 April – Sir Donald Currie GCMG, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket. (b. 1825) Railways thumb|NGR Class B thumb|NGR Mallet thumb|NGR Class C 4-8-2T Railway lines opened 4 February – Natal – Creighton to Riverside (Cape), 12 mi 3 ch km 1 off.Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 186, ref. no. 200954-13 1 April – Natal – Vryheid East to Hlobane, 17 mi km 1 off. 18 May – Cape Midland – Barkly Bridge to Alexandria, 54 mi 20 ch km 1 off.Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909. 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).102-1051431-33, 36, 84-85 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. 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.The Railway Report for year ending 31 Dec. 1908, Natal Government Railways, p. 39, par 14. References 30em 1909 in collapsed South Africa Category:Years in South Africa