1893 in South Africa
# 1893 in South Africa

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

### Railway lines opened

* 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, 35 miles (56.3 kilometres).
* 30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, 42 miles (67.6 kilometres).

### 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.

**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.
