1918 in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during 1918 in South Africa.
Incumbents
- Monarch: King George V.
- Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Viscount Buxton.[1]
- Prime Minister: Louis Botha.
- Chief Justice: James Rose Innes
Events
- An estimated 50 people die in the 1918 flu pandemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world.[2]
- January
- 8 – The Koöperatiewe Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika (KWV) is founded in Paarl.
- April
- 2 – Victoria College becomes the Stellenbosch University.
- May
- 14 – The Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the Noon Gun on Signal Hill, is instituted by Cape Town Mayor Sir Harry Hands.[3]
- June
- 4 – RMS Kenilworth Castle, one of the Union-Castle Line steamships, collides with her escort destroyer HMS Rival while trying to avoid her other escort, the cruiser HMS Kent.
- 5 – The Afrikaner Broederbond, a confidential cultural organisation, is founded in Johannesburg.
- November
- 14 – German East African troops are informed of the armistice on 11 November.
- 25 – General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of German forces in the German East Africa campaign, signs a ceasefire at Abercorn in Northern Rhodesia.
Births
- 14 January (in Mozambique) – Dimitri Tsafendas, assassin (d. 1999)[4]
- 21 January – Frederick Guy Butler, poet, academic and writer. (d. 2001)
- 1 July – Ahmed Deedat, Sunni Muslim missionary. (d. 2005)
- 13 July – Larry Taylor, actor. (d. 2003)
- 16 July – John (Jack) Frost, Second World War fighter pilot. (d. MIA 1942)
- 18 July – Nelson Mandela, activist and President of South Africa. (d. 2013)
- 27 August – Alina Lekgetha, nurse, chairman of South African Nursing Association and politician. (d. 1992)
Deaths
- 5 December – Schalk Willem Burger, Boer officer, lawyer, politician and statesman. (b. 1852)
Railways
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- 2 February – Cape – Kootjieskolk to Calvinia, 43 miles 47 chains (70.1 kilometres).[5]
- 16 September – Cape – Kootjieskolk to Sakrivier, 27 miles 21 chains (43.9 kilometres).[5]
Locomotives
- Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
References
- ^ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
- ^ Colds and flu: 1918 - South Africa's death toll Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed on 17 April 2017)
- ^ Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 138."2-Minute Wave of Silence" Revives a Time-honoured Tradition. Accessed on 5 June 2014.
- ^ Beresford, David (11 October 1999), Obituary: Long-jailed assassin of South African premier in The Guardian. Archived by WebCite at [1] Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ^ a b Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 188, ref. no. 200954-13
- ^ a b Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 34, 36–37. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- ^ a b c Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 58–61, 88. ISBN 0869772112.
