1909 in South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 1909 in South Africa.

## Incumbents

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* Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
* Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan.
* Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
* Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
* Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
* Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.

## Events

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February

* 25 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.

June

* 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground and form the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC).
* Mahatma Gandhi embarks in Cape Town for Southampton, England.

November

* 30 - Mahatma Gandhi and the Transvaal Indian Deputation arrive back in Cape Town.

December

* 28 - The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made by French aviator Albert Kimmerling by taking off from the Nahoon Racecourse at East London in a Voisin 1907 biplane.[1]

Unknown date

* South Africa becomes the first non-European country to join FIFA.

## Births

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* 19 March - Louis Hayward, South African-born actor. (d. 1985)
* 5 August - Oscar Mpetha, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 1994)
* 5 September - Yusuf Dadoo, doctor and politician. (d. 1983)
* 5 December - Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player. (d. 2016)

## Deaths

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* 13 April - Sir Donald Currie GCMG, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket. (b. 1825)

## Railways

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NGR Class B NGR Mallet NGR Class C 4-8-2T

### Railway lines opened

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* 4 February - Natal - Creighton to Riverside (Cape), 12 miles 3 chains (19.4 kilometres).[2]
* 1 April - Natal - Vryheid East to Hlobane, 17 miles (27.4 kilometres).[2]
* 18 May - Cape Midland - Barkly Bridge to Alexandria, 54 miles 20 chains (87.3 kilometres).[3]

### Locomotives

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* Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Natal Government Railways (NGR):
* The first five of thirty 4-8-2 tender locomotives, the world's first true Mountain type locomotive. In 1912 it will be designated Class B on the South African Railways (SAR).[4][5][6]
* A single 2-6-6-0 Mallet articulated compound steam locomotive, the first Mallet type to enter service in South Africa. In 1912 it will be designated Class MA on the SAR.[4][6]
* The NGR begins to modify some of its Class C 4-10-2T Reid Tenwheeler locomotives to a 4-8-2T wheel arrangement to make them suitable for yard work without the risk of derailing as a result of the long ten-coupled wheelbase. In 1912 these will be designated Class H2 on the SAR.[6][7]

## References

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1. ^ South African Power Flying Association - 1910 to 1920 - Early Flying in South Africa Archived 20 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed on 26 November 2016)
2. ^ a b Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 186, ref. no. 200954-13
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ a b Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 102–105. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
5. ^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. p. 14\. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
6. ^ a b c Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 31–33, 36, 84–85. ISBN 0869772112.
7. ^ The Railway Report for year ending 31 Dec. 1908, Natal Government Railways, p. 39, par 14.

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