1874_in_South_Africa
1874 in South Africa
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1874 in South Africa.
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir Henry Barkly.
- Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Sir Benjamin Pine.
- State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.[1]
- State President of the South African Republic: Thomas François Burgers.[2]
- Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand West: Sir Richard Southey.[3]
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Sir John Molteno.
- May
- 27 – The first group of Dorsland Trekkers departs from Pretoria to settle in Angola, led by Gert Alberts.[4]
- Unknown date
- Work begins on the Cape Parliamentary buildings (the current South African houses of Parliament).
- The Cape Government passes legislation to begin government funding of education and colleges.[5]
- The South African Teachers' Association is established in the Cape.
- The railway line from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage is partially opened.
- Work is begun on the Verlatenkloof pass, connecting the town of Sutherland with the southern Cape.[6]
- The Molteno Government of the Cape passes a parliamentary act to redraw the provincial boundaries of the Cape Colony, from two provinces (Eastern and Western Cape) to seven.
- The Molteno Regulations establish the South African public library system.[7]
- The Burgerspond, the South African Republic's first coin, is introduced.
- 4 July? – Moloko Temo, South African supercentenarian. (d. 2009)
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Locomotives
- A single 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotive is placed in railway construction service on the Midland System of the Cape Government Railways.[8]
- A third locomotive enters service on breakwater construction work at Table Bay Harbour, a 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge 0-4-0 side-tank engine built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co.[9]: 115–117
- Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, Orange Free State: Heads of State: 1854-1902 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
- The British Empire: Griqualand West Administrators (Accessed on 16 April 2017)
- Geni: Kmdt. Gert Andries Jacobus Alberts, b1c5d3e1 (Accessed on 17 April 2017)
- South African History Online: Amersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa (Accessed on 17 April 2017)
- Friis, T. 1962. The public library in South Africa - an evaluative study. Cape Town: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel. p.69
- C.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94-95.
- Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.