1874 in South Africa

	1874 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Events

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• Work begins on the Cape Parliamentary buildings (the current South African houses of Parliament).
• A college founded at Stellenbosch which later becomes the University of Stellenbosch.
• The Cape Government passes legislation to begin government funding of education and colleges.^[1]
• The South African Teachers' Association is established in the Cape.
• The railway line from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage is partially opened.
• 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, to be implemented throughout South Africa up until 1955.^[2]
• The Burgerspond, the South African Republic's first coin, is introduced.

Births

• 7 April – Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, religious leader and political activist, is born at Ramokgopa near Polokwane.

Railways

Table Bay Harbour Board 0-4-0T

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.^[3]
• 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..^{[4]:115–117}

References

1. http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/amersfoort-legacy-timeline-1658-present
2. Friis, T. 1962. The public library in South Africa - an evaluative study. Cape Town: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel. p.69
3. C.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94-95.
4. Holland, D.F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.