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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use South African English Шаблон:Year in South Africa The following lists events that happened during 1908 in South Africa.
Incumbents
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
- Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan.
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
- Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
- Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
- Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.
Events
- January
- 30 – Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after having been tried and sentenced to 2 months in prison earlier in the month.
- March
- 4 – The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established.
- October
- 7 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Volksrust, along with fifteen other Indians, for entering Transvaal without registration certificates and is sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labor.
- November
- Unknown date
- Bosman de Ravelli composes the first Afrikaans art song
Births
- 5 March – Arthur Wegelin, composer.
- 23 April – Bram Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, is born in the Orange River Colony. (d. 1975)
- 2 July – Andries Johannes Bester de Klerk, writer and secretary of the Cape Province, is born in Williston, Cape Colony
- 10 July – Wally Hayward, South African athlete (d. 2006)
Deaths
Railways
Railway lines opened
- 4 January – Cape Eastern – West Bank, Buffalo Harbour to Chiselhurst, Шаблон:Convert.[1]
- 6 February – Transvaal – Machadodorp to Breyten, Шаблон:Convert.[2]
- 8 April – Free State – Hamilton to Beaconsfield (Cape), Шаблон:Convert.[2]
- 28 May – Cape Western – Milnerton to Ascot, Шаблон:Convert.[2]
- 3 June – Natal – Esperanza to Donnybrook (Narrow gauge), Шаблон:Convert.[2]
Locomotives
- The Cape Government Railways places two 4-6-2 Pacific type narrow gauge tank steam locomotives in passenger service on the Walmer branch in Port Elizabeth.[3][4]
References
Шаблон:Reflist Шаблон:Years in South Africa Шаблон:Africa topic
- ↑ Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 186, ref. no. 200954-13
- ↑ Шаблон:Paxton-Bourne
- ↑ Шаблон:Dulez 150
