1875 in South Africa

none July 2020 November 2013 1875 The following lists events that happened during 1875 in South Africa. Incumbents Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Henry Barkly. Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer. State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand. State President of the South African Republic: Thomas François Burgers. Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand West: Richard Southey (until 3 August) William Owen Lanyon (until 3 August). Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: John Charles Molteno. Events May John Garlick started his first store on 3 May 1875, on the corner Bree and Strand Streets, in the central business district of Cape Town. This would later become Garlicks, a nationwide chain of department stores.From one Cape store to establishments in every major centre https://www.flickr.com/photos/hilton-t/4799006961 5 July 2020 Cape Times 16 October 1981 August 14 – The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Association of True Afrikaners) is formed at the home of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl. Unknown date The Black Flag Rebellion is staged by white diamond diggers at Kimberley. The Molteno Government begins construction of two Midland railway lines from Swartkops in Port Elizabeth and from Uitenhage.The South African Railways - Historical Survey. Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978, p. 10. The Verlatenskloof pass in the Roggeveld Mountains, begun the previous year, is completed.http://www.samountainpasses.co.za/Home/WesternCape/Passes/KAROO/GannagaPass/tabid/548/Default.aspx Gannaga Pass Births July 7 – Vincent Tancred, cricketer (d. 1904) Deaths 19 May - Christoffel Brand, politician, (b. 1797) Railways New lines Construction begins on the Swartkops-Alicedale line. Railway lines opened 11 May – Cape Western – Cape Town Docks to junction with mainline, 7 mi 1 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. 181, ref. no. 200954-13 26 July – Cape Midland – Port Elizabeth to Addo, 31 mi 55 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. 22 September – Cape Midland – Swartkops to Uitenhage, 13 mi 46 ch km 1 off. 3 November – Cape Western – Wellington to Ceres Road, 39 mi 50 ch km 1 off. Locomotives thumb|CGR 1st Class 4-4-0T of 1875 Three new Cape on locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR): The first eight of twenty-seven 2nd Class 2-6-2 tank-and-tender locomotives on all three newly established regional systems, the Eastern System from East London, the Midland System from Port Elizabeth and the Western System from Cape Town.23–25 Three 1st Class 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives on the Midland and Eastern Systems.118–119Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office, Pretoria, January 1912, p. 17. (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000) The first seven of eleven 1st Class 4-4-0 tank locomotives on the Western and Midland systems.25–26, 76–77C.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94–95. References 1875 in collapsed South Africa Category:Years in South Africa