1896 in South Africa

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South Africa's first school of mines is opened in Kimberley (later to form the core of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg)

2 January - Leander Starr Jameson and his forces surrender at Doornkop near Krugersdorp
6 January - Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony for his involvement in the Jameson Raid

16 February - a train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg killing more than 78 people

13 May - The Franchise Bill is passed by Natal's Legislative Assembly disfranchising natives of other countries

5 June - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (later called "Mahatma Gandhi") embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay

6 August - Cape Town's first electric tram service begins operation along Adderley Street to Mowbray Hill

18 December - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived back in Durban with his wife and two sons but the ship was placed under a 5-day quarantine because Bombay was declared a plague-infected port. Quarantine was extended to 13 January 1897.

12 January - Matthys Stefanus Benjamin Kritzinger, an Afrikaans literator and lexicographer, is born in the district of Carolina, Eastern Transvaal
1 February - Stephanus Le Roux Marais, organist, teacher and composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in the district of Bloemfontein
1 February - Ivan Mitford-Barberton, art teacher at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and sculptor of several monuments in South Africa, is born in Somerset East
April - Clements Kadalie, trade unionist, is born at Chifira, Nkhata Bay District, Nyasaland (now called Malawi)
3 May - Petrus Johannes Lemmer, composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein, Transvaal

17 September - Nicholaas Waterboer, Griqua chief and eldest son of Andries Waterboer , dies in Griquatown