1893 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1893 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:
 * until July: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
 * July–September : Francis Seymour Haden
 * starting 27 September: Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
 * 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.
 * Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Sir John Robinson

Events

 * January
 * 10 – The South African and International Exhibition closes
 * May
 * 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.


 * Unknown date
 * The first Crocidolite (Blue Asbestos) mine is opened near Prieska.

Births

 * 16 May – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist. (d. 1980)

Deaths

 * 30 April – Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician, dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81.
 * 23 June – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman. (b. 1817)
 * 9 July – George Christopher Cato, the first mayor of Durban, dies at the age of 79.

Railway lines opened

 * 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, 35 mi.


 * 30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, 42 mi.

Locomotives

 * Cape
 * The Cape Government Railways places the first of forty 6th Class 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives in service on its Western and Midland Systems. They will become the Class 6 on the South African Railways in 1912.


 * Transvaal
 * The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner 0-6-4 tank steam locomotives are placed in service by the Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. The survivors will become the Class B on the South African Railways in 1912.