1893 in South Africa

none May 2020 October 2013 1893 The following lists events that happened during 1893 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: until July: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell. July–September : 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 – The South African and International Exhibition closes May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban. Unknown date The first Crocidolite (Blue Asbestos) mine is opened near Prieska. Births 16 May – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist. (d. 1980) Deaths 30 April – Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician, dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81. 23 June – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman. (b. 1817) 9 July – George Christopher Cato, the first mayor of Durban, dies at the age of 79. Railways thumb|CGR 6th Class of 1893 thumb|NZASM 46 Tonner, c. 1895 Railway lines opened 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, 35 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 30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, 42 mi km 1 off. 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 1912.44–45, 57, 113–117, 12641–44 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 1912.136 References 30em 1893 in collapsed