1874 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1874 in South Africa.

Incumbents Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir Henry Barkly. Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Sir Benjamin Pine. State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, Orange Free State: Heads of State: 1854-1902 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) State President of the South African Republic: Thomas François Burgers.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices, South African Republic (Transvaal): Heads of State: 1857-1877 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand West: Sir Richard Southey.The British Empire: Griqualand West Administrators (Accessed on 16 April 2017) Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Sir John Molteno.

Events May 27 – The first group of Dorsland Trekkers departs from Pretoria to settle in Angola, led by Gert Alberts.Geni: Kmdt. Gert Andries Jacobus Alberts, b1c5d3e1 (Accessed on 17 April 2017)

Unknown date Work begins on the Cape Parliamentary buildings (the current South African houses of Parliament). The Cape Government passes legislation to begin government funding of education and colleges.South African History Online: Amersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa (Accessed on 17 April 2017) The South African Teachers' Association is established in the Cape. The railway line from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage is partially opened. Work is begun on the Verlatenkloof pass, connecting the town of Sutherland with the southern Cape. The Molteno Government of the Cape passes a parliamentary act to redraw the provincial boundaries of the Cape Colony, from two provinces (Eastern and Western Cape) to seven. The Molteno Regulations establish the South African public library system.Friis, T. 1962. The public library in South Africa - an evaluative study. Cape Town: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel. p.69 The Burgerspond, the South African Republic's first coin, is introduced.

Births 4 July? – Moloko Temo, South African supercentenarian. (d. 2009)

Railways

Locomotives A single 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotive is placed in railway construction service on the Midland System of the Cape Government Railways.C.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94-95. A third locomotive enters service on breakwater construction work at Table Bay Harbour, a Brunel gauge side-tank engine built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co.

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