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- Incumbents
- Events
- Births
- Deaths
- Railways Railway lines opened Locomotives
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2013}}{{Use South African English|date=October 2013}}{{Year in South Africa|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 September 27: 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- 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.
RailwaysRailway lines opened- 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, {{convert|35|mi|km|1|abbr=off}}.[1]
- 30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, {{convert|42|mi|km|1|abbr=off}}.[1]
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.[2][3]
- Transvaal
- The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner {{nowrap|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.[2][4]
References1. ^1 2 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
2. ^1 {{Holland-Vol 1|pages=44–45, 57, 113–117, 126}}
3. ^{{Paxton-Bourne|pages=41–44}}
4. ^{{Holland-Vol 2|page=136}}
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