- Source: 1926 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1926 in South Africa.
Incumbents
Monarch: King George V.
Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Athlone.
Prime Minister: James Barry Munnik Hertzog.
Chief Justice: James Rose Innes.
Events
March
13 – The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.
October
10 – The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened.
10 – The Sabie Game Reserve is renamed to Kruger National Park.
Births
23 May – Joe Slovo, politician, in Obeliai, Lithuania. (d.1995)
11 September; Gerrit Viljoen, government minister. (d. 2009)
15 October – Rexon Mathebula, artist, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
24 December – Ronald Draper, cricketer
Deaths
Railways
= Railway lines opened
=18 January – Transvaal – Villiers, Free State to Grootvlei, 19 miles 39 chains (31.4 kilometres).
7 June – Free State – Harrismith to Warden, 35 miles 33 chains (57.0 kilometres).
18 August – Cape – Upington to Kakamas (Narrow gauge), 54 miles 63 chains (88.2 kilometres).
1 September – Cape – Addo to Sunland, 6 miles 1 chain (9.7 kilometres).
15 September – Natal – Mtubatuba to Candover, 110 miles 70 chains (178.4 kilometres).
19 November – Cape – Katberg to Seymour (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 30 chains (15.1 kilometres).
22 November – Transvaal – Citrus to Plaston, 17 miles 48 chains (28.3 kilometres).
8 December – Cape – Klawer to Landplaas, 50 miles 37 chains (81.2 kilometres).
= Locomotives
=Three Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
The first twenty-three Class 15CA 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.
Four Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2 Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.
To address a shortage of suitable shunting locomotives, the first of twenty-one ex Natal Government Railways Class D1 4-8-2 tank locomotives are rebuilt to Class 17 4-8-0 tank-and-tender locomotives.
References
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