1898 in South Africa

none October 2013 January 2024 1898 The following lists events that happened during 1898 in South Africa. Incumbents Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Alfred Milner. Governor of the Colony of Natal: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell. State President of the Orange Free State: Martinus Theunis Steyn. State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger. Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: John Gordon Sprigg. Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Henry Binns. Events March 26 – The Sabie Game Reserve, renamed to Kruger National Park in 1926, is proclaimed in the Official Gazette of the South African Republic, the first officially designated game reserve. Unknown date Benjamin Jennings Caddy, militant trade unionist, immigrates to South Africa from Australia at the age of 17. Births 6 June – Jim Fouché, second State President of South Africa, in Wepener, Orange Free State. (died 1980) Deaths - 26 March William Guybon Atherstone, medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, (born 1814) Railways Railway lines opened thumb|CGR 3rd Class Wynberg Tender thumb|CGR 6th Class thumb|OVGS Class 6L-3 thumb|PPR 55 Tonner Cape Midland – Bamboo Junction to Cape Collieries, 16 mi km 1 off.Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13 3 March – Cape Midland – Middelburg to Graaff-Reinet, 91 mi 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. 13 June – Natal – Clairwood to Wests in Durban, 6 mi 45 ch km 1 off. 1 October – Transvaal – Pretoria to Potgietersrus, 138 mi km 1 off. 15 October – Namaqualand – Garracoop Junction to Nababeep, 8 mi km 1 off. 1 November – Free State – Theunissen to Winburg, 28 mi 10 ch km 1 off. 1 December – Natal – Tongaat to Tugela, 39 mi km 1 off. Locomotives Cape Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR): Six 4-4-0 3rd Class Wynberg Tender locomotives in passenger service on the suburban lines in Cape Town.47, 56–57, 59, 107–108, 12618, 29, 41–44 A fourth batch of thirty-three 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 6D on the South African Railways (SAR). Free State The Oranje-Vrijstaat Gouwerment-Spoorwegen takes delivery of three of its final six new Cape 6th Class locomotives before its railway operations are taken over by the Imperial Military Railways. In 1912 they will be designated Class 6E on the SAR. Transvaal The independent Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) places five 55 Tonner 2-6-4T tank locomotives in service. In 1912 they will be designated Class D on the SAR. References 30em 1898 in collapsed South Africa Category:Years in South Africa