1896 in South Africa
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[edit] Events
- South Africa's first school of mines is opened in Kimberley (later to form the core of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg)
[edit] January
- 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
[edit] February
- 16 February - a train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg killing more than 78 people
[edit] May
- 13 May - The Franchise Bill is passed by Natal's Legislative Assembly disfranchising natives of other countries
[edit] June
- 5 June - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (later called "Mahatma Gandhi") embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay
[edit] August
- 6 August - Cape Town's first electric tram service begins operation along Adderley Street to Mowbray Hill
[edit] December
- 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.
[edit] Births
- 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
[edit] Deaths
- 17 September - Nicholaas Waterboer, Griqua chief and eldest son of Andries Waterboer , dies in Griquatown