1907_in_South_Africa
1907 in South Africa
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1907 in South Africa.
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
- Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan.
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
- Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
- Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
- Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.
- March
- 22 – The Transvaal Asiatic Registration Act is passed in parliament, sparking protests by Indians.
- July
- 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy as the Orange Free State.
Reggie walker winning gold in the Olympics
- 30 December – Geoffrey Cronjé founder of Apartheid
Main article: Deaths in 1907
Further information: Category:1907 deaths
Railway lines opened
- 1 January – Cape Western – Misgund to Avontuur (Narrow gauge), 21 miles 14 chains (34.1 kilometres).[1]
- 13 March – Transvaal – Breyten to Ermelo, 18 miles 46 chains (29.9 kilometres).[2]
- 18 April – Natal – Estcourt to Weenen (Narrow gauge), 28 miles 62 chains (46.3 kilometres).[2]
- 15 May – Natal – Loskop to Winterton, 10 miles 60 chains (17.3 kilometres).[2]
- 16 May – Cape Western – Mafeking to Buurman's Drift, 9 miles 20 chains (14.9 kilometres).[1]
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- 2 July – Free State – Modderpoort to Bethlehem, 103 miles 64 chains (167.0 kilometres).[2]
- 5 July – Transvaal – Krugersdorp to Zeerust, 127 miles 17 chains (204.7 kilometres).[2]
- 14 July – Cape Midland – Knysna to Templeman, 21 miles (33.8 kilometres).[2]
- 2 September – Natal – North Shepstone to South Shepstone, 2 miles 10 chains (3.4 kilometres).[2]
- 25 September – Cape Midland – Mosselbaai to George, 32 miles 49 chains (52.5 kilometres).[1]
Locomotives
- The Cape Government Railways places a single experimental 4-6-2 Pacific three cylinder compound steam locomotive in service, based on the second series of its Karoo Class locomotives. In 1912 it will be designated Class Experimental 1 on the South African Railways (SAR).[3]
- The Central South African Railways acquires a single self-contained Railmotor, a passenger coach that is an integral part of the locomotive itself, for its railmotor passenger service that had been introduced in 1906.[4]
- The Natal Government Railways places six 4-6-2 Pacific type narrow gauge tank steam locomotives in service. By 1930 they will be designated Class NG3 on the SAR.[5]
- 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 31st December, 1909.
- Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 186, ref. no. 200954-13
- Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- CSAR General Manager's Report, Extracts from the CSAR General Manager's Reports for 1906, 1907, 1908 & 1909.
- Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 101–102, 110. ISBN 0869772112.