title: 1893 in South Africa
text: # 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.
  
  ## Railways
  
  ### Railway lines opened
  
  * 1 January – Transvaal – Germiston to Pretoria, 35 miles (56.3 kilometres).
  * 30 December – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Airlie, 42 miles (67.6 kilometres).
  
  ### 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.
  