1885 in South Africa
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[edit] Events
- The railway line from Cape Town to Kimberley was opened
- 26 February - The Berlin Conference ends and the Scramble for Africa starts
[edit] Births
- 31 January - Marthinus Johannes de Jong, a landscape painter, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
