1874 in South Africa

← 1873 1872 1871 1874 in South Africa → 1875 1876 1877
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

Events

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• Work begins on the Cape Parliamentary buildings (the current South African houses of Parliament).
• A college founded at Stellenbosch which later becomes the University of Stellenbosch.
• The Cape Government passes legislation to begin government funding of education and colleges.
• The South African Teachers' Association is established in the Cape.
• The railway line from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage is partially opened.
• The Molteno Government of the Cape passes a parliamentary act to redraw the provincial boundaries of the Cape Colony, from two provinces (Eastern and Western Cape) to seven.
• The Molteno Regulations establish the South African public library system, to be implemented throughout South Africa up until 1955.
• The Burgerspond, the South African Republic's first coin, is introduced.

Births

• 7 April – Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, religious leader and political activist, is born at Ramokgopa near Polokwane.

Railways

Table Bay Harbour Board 0-4-0T

Locomotives

• A single 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotive is placed in railway construction service on the Midland System of the Cape Government Railways.
• A third locomotive enters service on breakwater construction work at Table Bay Harbour, a 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge 0-4-0 side-tank engine built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co..