1913 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1913 in South Africa.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: King George V.
 * Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Viscount Gladstone.
 * Prime Minister: Louis Botha.
 * Chief Justice: John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers

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

 * 6 April – A. P. Mda, co-founder of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 1993)
 * 9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist. (d. 1993)

Deaths

 * 12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard. (b. 1846)
 * 30 April – Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. (b. 1830)
 * 16 November – Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony. (b. 1850)

Railway lines opened

 * 5 March – Cape – Vredenburg to Saldanha (Narrow gauge), 9 mi.
 * 15 May – Free State – Arlington to Senekal, 27 mi.
 * 15 July – Cape – Butterworth to Idutywa, 26 mi.
 * 6 August – Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 mi.
 * 3 November – Cape – Graafwater to Kleipan, 22 mi.
 * 3 November – Free State – Reitz to Marsala, 28 mi.
 * 10 November – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Sabie, 55 mi.
 * 1 December – Natal – Greytown to Ahrens, 19 mi.
 * 5 December – Transvaal – Bandelierkop to Lilliput, 83 mi.
 * 15 December – Natal – Tendeka to Piet Retief (Transvaal), 76 mi.

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.
 * The first of 45 Class 14 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.
 * The New Cape Central Railway places three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives in service.

Rugby

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