1870 in South Africa
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Events
- 30 July – Klipdrift Republic is proclaimed by a group of diamond miners with the Stafford Parker as their President
- The Alfred Basin in Table Bay Harbour, named after Prince Alfred, is completed.[1][2][3]
Births
- 24 May – Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African statesman and soldier, is born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony.
- 10 September – Gabriël Gideon Cillié, a professor and member of the head committee of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings.
Deaths
- 11 March – King Moshoeshoe I, considered the father of the Basotho people who established Lesotho.
Railways
Locomotives
- A second locomotive is at work on excavation and breakwater construction in Table Bay Harbour, a 0-4-0 saddle-tank engine believed to have been built by Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works and delivered to the Cape at some time between 1863 and 1870.[4][5]
References
- ^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 115–117. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- ^ History of Cape Town: The growth of the city and the port
- ^ South Africa’s Yesterdays, The Reader’s Digest Association South Africa (Pty.) Limited, 1981, (Editor Peter Joyce), p171, ISBN 0 620 05019 5
- ^ The Cape Argus of 19 July 1870.
- ^ Dating the opening of Hughes Works