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 This is a list of State Presidents of the Orange Free State. List Last election See also *State President of the South African Republic External links Archontology.org: Orange Free State: Heads of State: 1854–1902 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stat ...

Jan Brand Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, (popularly known as Sir Jan Brand and sometimes as Sir John Henry Brand or Jan Henrick Brand; 6 December 1823 – 14 July 1888) was a South African lawyer and politician who served as the fourth state presiden ...

.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 This is a list of State Presidents of the South African Republic (Before 1866 nl, President van de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and after 1866 nl, Staatspresident der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek). The country was referred as the ''Transvaal R ...

: 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

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Gert Alberts Gert Andries Jacobus Alberts (born 3 January 1836 in Swellendam – died 29 March 1927 in Humpata) was the leader of the First Dorsland Trek. He was a member of the Gereformeerde Kerk (or 'Dopper' church) and served as a church elder (‘kerkra ...

. ;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. * The South African Teachers' Association is established in the Cape. * The

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line from

Port Elizabeth Gqeberha (), formerly Port Elizabeth and colloquially often referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Sou ...

Uitenhage Uitenhage ( ; ), officially renamed Kariega, is a South African town in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. Along with the city of Port El ...

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 The Cape Colony ( nl, Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British Empire, British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope, which existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when i ...

, from two provinces (Eastern and Western Cape) to seven. * The ''

Molteno Regulations The Molteno Regulations (1874) were a system of government grants to establish free, open-to-all, public libraries, in the Cape Colony, South Africa. Content Their promulgation in the nineteenth century (Government notice 442, 1874) was intend ...

'' 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 The South African Republic ( nl, Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; af, Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer Republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it ...

's first coin, is introduced.

Births

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

Deaths

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 The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910. History Private railways The first railways at the Cape were privately own ...

.''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.

References

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South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

Years in South Africa