1892 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1892 in South Africa.

Incumbents

 * Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Henry Brougham Loch.
 * Governor of the Colony of Natal: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
 * State President of the Orange Free State: Francis William Reitz.
 * State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger.
 * Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Cecil John Rhodes.

Events

 * February
 * 8 – The Orange Free State, Transvaal and the Cape Colony officially adopt a uniform standard time of GMT+01:30.


 * August
 * 20 – The Johannesburg Reform Committee is established by prominent Johannesburg citizens.


 * September
 * 8 – The South African and International Exhibition opens
 * 15 – The railway line from Cape Town via Bloemfontein, with connections to Port Elizabeth and East London, is completed to Germiston.

Births

 * 3 January – J.R.R. Tolkien, writer, poet, philologist and professor. (d. 1973)

Railway lines opened

 * 8 February – Cape Midland – Rosmead Junction to Stormberg Junction to link with the Cape Eastern, 83 mi.
 * 7 May – Free State – Bloemfontein to Vaal River Bridge, 212 mi.
 * 21 May – Cape Eastern – Albert Junction (Dreunberg Junction) to Bethulie Bridge, 39 mi.
 * 21 May – Free State – Bethulie Bridge to Springfontein, 28 mi.
 * 20 June – Transvaal – Malelane to Nelspruit, 38 mi.
 * 12 July – Natal – Danskraal to Natal-Free State border, 35 mi.
 * 12 July – Free State – Natal-Free State border to Harrismith, 23 mi.
 * 15 September – Transvaal – Vaal River Bridge to Germiston, 40 mi.

Locomotives

 * Cape
 * The Cape Government Railways places the first six 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives in service.


 * Transvaal
 * The Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) places the first of twenty 40 Tonner tank locomotives in service.