1913 in South Africa

← 1912 1911 1910 1913 in South Africa → 1914 1915 1916
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1913 in South Africa.

Incumbents

• Monarch: King George V.
• Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Viscount Gladstone. ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Louis Botha.
• Chief Justice: John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers

Events

May

• South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train pilots for the South African Aviation Corps.

June

• 19 – The Natives Land Act is passed, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.

November

• 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

Unknown date

• The City of Greater Cape Town is formed by the union of Central Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont and Kalk Bay.

Births

• 6 April – A. P. Mda, co-founder of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 1993)
• 9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist. (d. 1993)

Deaths

• 12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard. (b. 1846)
• 30 April – Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. (b. 1830)
• 16 November – Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (b. 1850)

Railways

Railway lines opened

SAR Class 4A

NCCR Class 7, SAR Class 7F

SAR Class 14

• 5 March – Cape – Vredenburg to Saldanha (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 65 chains (15.8 kilometres). ^[2]
• 15 May – Free State – Arlington to Senekal, 27 miles 30 chains (44.1 kilometres). ^[2]
• 15 July – Cape – Butterworth to Idutywa, 26 miles 74 chains (43.3 kilometres). ^[2]
• 6 August – Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 miles 30 chains (73.0 kilometres). ^[2]
• 3 November – Cape – Graafwater to Kleipan, 22 miles 67 chains (36.8 kilometres). ^[2]
• 3 November – Free State – Reitz to Marsala, 28 miles 69 chains (46.4 kilometres). ^[2]
• 10 November – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Sabie, 55 miles 36 chains (89.2 kilometres). ^[2]
• 1 December – Natal – Greytown to Ahrens, 19 miles 70 chains (32.0 kilometres). ^[2]
• 5 December – Transvaal – Bandelierkop to Lilliput, 83 miles 33 chains (134.2 kilometres). ^[2]
• 15 December – Natal – Tendeka to Piet Retief (Transvaal), 76 miles 35 chains (123.0 kilometres). ^[2]

Locomotives

• Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
  • The first of ten Class 4A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives. ^[3]
  • The first of 45 Class 14 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives. ^[3]
• The New Cape Central Railway places three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives in service. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Sports

Rugby

• 11 January – The South African Springboks beat the French Les Tricolores 38–5 in Bordeaux, France.

References

1. Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
2. Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 187, ref. no. 200954-13
3. Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 38–39, 46–48, 56–57. ISBN   0869772112.
4. Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 78–80. ISBN   978-0-7153-5382-0.
5. Pattison, R.G. (1997). The Cape Seventh Class Locomotives (1st ed.). Kenilworth, Cape Town: The Railway History Group. pp. 15–16. ISBN   0958400946.