1883_in_South_Africa
1883 in South Africa
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1883 in South Africa.
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Hercules Robinson.
- 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: Triumviate of Paul Kruger, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and Piet Joubert (until 9 May), Paul Kruger (starting 9 May).
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Thomas Charles Scanlen.
- April
- 16 – Paul Kruger is re-elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.
- May
- 9 – Paul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.
- July
- August
- 6 – The United States of Stellaland is established when the Republics of Stellaland and Goshen unite.
- 12 – The last Quagga in the world dies in captivity at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, making the species extinct.
- February – Z. D. Mangoaela, Basotho folklorist and writer (d. 1963)
- 6 August – Constance Georgina Adams, botanist (d. 1968)[1]
- 9 August – Robert Moffat, Scottish Congregationalist missionary. Died in Leigh near Tunbridge Wells, England.
Railway lines opened
- 5 May – Cape Western – Muizenberg to Kalkbaai, 1 mile 45 chains (2.5 kilometres).[2]
- 14 May – Cape Western – Beaufort West to Victoria West Road, 80 miles 41 chains (129.6 kilometres).[2]
- 15 October – Cape Eastern – Queenstown to Sterkstroom, 35 miles 28 chains (56.9 kilometres).[2]
- 16 October – Cape Midland – Cradock to Colesberg, 126 miles 19 chains (203.2 kilometres).[2]
Locomotives
- Eighteen 3rd Class 4-4-0 tender passenger locomotives are delivered to the Cape Government Railways from Neilson and Company and placed in passenger service out of Cape Town, East London and Port Elizabeth respectively.[3][4]
- Rall, Maureen (2002). Petticoat Pioneers: The History of the Pioneer Women who Lived on the Diamond Fields in the Early Years. Kimberley, South Africa: Kimberley Africana Library. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-62027-613-9.
- 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 31 December 1909.
- Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 37–38, 106–108. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
- Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 17. ISBN 0869772112.