title: 1892 in South Africa
text: # 1892 in South Africa
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1892 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: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
  * 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.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * 8 – The Orange Free State, Transvaal and the Cape Colony officially adopt a uniform standard time of GMT+01:30.
  
  ### August
  
  * 20 – The Johannesburg Reform Committee is established by prominent Johannesburg citizens.
  
  ### September
  
  * 8 – The South African and International Exhibition opens
  * 15 – The railway line from Cape Town via Bloemfontein, with connections to Port Elizabeth and East London, is completed to Germiston.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 3 January – J.R.R. Tolkien, writer, poet, philologist and professor. (d. 1973)
  
  ## Railways
  
  ### Railway lines opened
  
  * 8 February – Cape Midland – Rosmead Junction to Stormberg Junction to link with the Cape Eastern, 83 miles (133.6 kilometres).
  * 7 May – Free State – Bloemfontein to Vaal River Bridge, 212 miles 79 chains (342.8 kilometres).
  * 21 May – Cape Eastern – Albert Junction (Dreunberg Junction) to Bethulie Bridge, 39 miles (62.8 kilometres).
  * 21 May – Free State – Bethulie Bridge to Springfontein, 28 miles 2 chains (45.1 kilometres).
  * 20 June – Transvaal – Malelane to Nelspruit, 38 miles (61.2 kilometres).
  * 12 July – Natal – Danskraal to Natal-Free State border, 35 miles 79 chains (57.9 kilometres).
  * 12 July – Free State – Natal-Free State border to Harrismith, 23 miles 12 chains (37.3 kilometres).
  * 15 September – Transvaal – Vaal River Bridge to Germiston, 40 miles (64.4 kilometres).
  
  ### Locomotives
  
  **Cape**
  
  * The Cape Government Railways places the first six 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives in $service.^{:40–41,61}$
  
  **Transvaal**
  
  * The Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) places the first of twenty 40 Tonner tank locomotives in $service.^{:113–114}$
  