1913 in South Africa

	1913 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

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

• 9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist, is born at Botshabelo mission, near Middelburg, Transvaal.

Deaths

• 12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard.
• 30 April – Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Bethal at the age of 83.

Railways

Railway lines opened

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

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.^[2]:38–39
  • The first of forty-five Class 14 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^[2]:56–57
• The New Cape Central Railway places three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives in service.^{[2]:46–48[3]:78–80[4]:15–16}

Sports

Rugby

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

References

1. 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
2. Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
3. Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 1: 1859-1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
4. Pattison, R.G. (1997). The Cape Seventh Class Locomotives (1st ed.). Kenilworth, Cape Town: The Railway History Group. ISBN 0958400946.