1875 in South Africa

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1875

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* 1876
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*   * List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1875 in South Africa.

## Incumbents

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* Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Henry Barkly.
* Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer.
* State President of the Orange Free State: Jan Brand.
* State President of the South African Republic: Thomas François Burgers.
* Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand West: Richard Southey (until 3 August) William Owen Lanyon (until 3 August).
* Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: John Charles Molteno.

## Events

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May

* John Garlick started his first store on 3 May 1875, on the corner Bree and Strand Streets, in the central business district of Cape Town. This would later become Garlicks, a nationwide chain of department stores.[1]

August

* 14 - The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Association of True Afrikaners) is formed at the home of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl.

Unknown date

* The Black Flag Rebellion is staged by white diamond diggers at Kimberley.
* The Molteno Government begins construction of two Midland railway lines from Swartkops in Port Elizabeth and from Uitenhage.[2]
* The Verlatenskloof pass in the Roggeveld Mountains, begun the previous year, is completed.[3]

## Births

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* July 7 - Vincent Tancred, cricketer (d. 1904)

## Deaths

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* 19 May - Christoffel Brand, politician, (b. 1797)

## Railways

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### New lines

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* Construction begins on the Swartkops-Alicedale line.[2][4]

### Railway lines opened

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* 11 May - Cape Western - Cape Town Docks to junction with mainline, 7 miles 1 chain (11.3 kilometres).[4]
* 26 July - Cape Midland - Port Elizabeth to Addo, 31 miles 55 chains (51.0 kilometres).[5]
* 22 September - Cape Midland - Swartkops to Uitenhage, 13 miles 46 chains (21.8 kilometres).[5]
* 3 November - Cape Western - Wellington to Ceres Road, 39 miles 50 chains (63.8 kilometres).[5]

### Locomotives

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CGR 1st Class 4-4-0T of 1875

Three new 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR):

* The first eight of twenty-seven 2nd Class 2-6-2 tank-and-tender locomotives on all three newly established regional systems, the Eastern System from East London, the Midland System from Port Elizabeth and the Western System from Cape Town.[2][6]: 23–25 [7]
* Three 1st Class 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives on the Midland and Eastern Systems.[7][8]: 118–119 [9]
* The first seven of eleven 1st Class 4-4-0 tank locomotives on the Western and Midland systems.[6]: 25–26, 76–77 [7]

## References

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1. ^ "From one Cape store to establishments in every major centre". Cape Times. 16 October 1981. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
2. ^ a b c The South African Railways - Historical Survey. Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978, p. 10.
3. ^ "Gannaga Pass".
4. ^ a b Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 181, ref. no. 200954-13
5. ^ a b c Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
6. ^ a b Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
7. ^ a b c C.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94–95.
8. ^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
9. ^ Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office, Pretoria, January 1912, p. 17. (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)

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